A weekend boat cruise alongside Perth’s Swan River ended abruptly for a bunch of younger males after they determined to try to catch some air off one other vessel’s wake.
Instead of the flawless touchdown they have been hoping for, the boat capsized sending the six blokes into the river on Sunday afternoon.
It was hardly a shock for Dave McDonald, the proprietor of Wild West Charters, who mentioned the boys have been sitting on the boat’s onerous prime roof after they tried to leap his boat’s wake.
“These dudes just tried to jump my wake with six people on the hard top,” he wrote on Facebook.
“Their ‘raised centre of gravity’ donated all of their phones to the mighty Swan River.”
McDonald noticed the entire thing play out and circled again to assist the boys out, saying he known as Water Police and provided lifejackets whereas they waited for authorities to reach.
“They went across my wake and the centre of gravity was too high and they just rolled over at full speed and into the river,” McDonald informed 6PR on Monday morning.
“I tried throwing them a life jacket each, they were more concerned about saving their shoes and phones but I think they were in shock.”
Luckily, the entire males escaped with out damage, except for their bruised egos.
McDonald took to Facebook on the weekend to share the boys’ misfortune, posting an image of the six guys, with 4 captured clinging to the perimeters of the boat, one other scratching his head in disbelief and the final trying like he was having a very good snicker concerning the scenario.
Facebook customers didn’t take too kindly to their boating misadventure, with one labelling it a “monumental f**k up”.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the future leaders of tomorrow,” one other Facebook person wrote.
Although, not everybody was as onerous on the boys.
“They’ll be laughing about their experiences in years to come,” one other wrote. “We all do silly things at their age.”
While one other joked, “I feel like this (picture) needs to be turned into a renaissance painting”.
One person summed up the accident merely as, “Boys will be boys”.
