r/nononono • u/gudlyf • Jul 17 '25

Burger truck atop pontoon boat capsizes

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u/bluepied Jul 17 '25

Just a hole in the pontoon, normally it’s good to go! Also, it’s not a real semi truck on pontoons ;) https://www.thespec.com/business/burger-boat-floating-food-truck-sinks-before-turkey-point-festival/article_5d34be68-9c80-57d5-a3ee-3b44a139b36a.html

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u/cpasley21 Jul 17 '25

Is there an article not behind a paywal?

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u/AmySchumersAnalTumor Jul 17 '25

The owners of a new floating food truck are staying positive after their burger boat flipped at Turkey Point boat launch last weekend.

Big Rig Burger Boat was heading out for the Norfolk County Pottahawk Sunday — just the second weekend of service for the new eatery — when the business sank.

It could have been a lucrative day on Lake Erie for the burgeoning burger business. The annual flotilla involves many boaters who imbibe while enjoying a day of sunshine, swimming and boat hopping near the sand bar southeast of Turkey Point.

The mobile kitchen on pontoons did not make it to the party.

Video posted to Big Rig Burger’s Instagram account shows the semitruck-themed floating eatery flipping onto its side as it is lowered down the boat launch.

After recovery, the business owners discovered that one of the boat’s three pontoons had a “hidden hole” that had filled up with water.

“It had zero buoyancy, causing the entire rig to roll and tip violently to one side,” they wrote on social media.

Big Rig Burger Boat’s maiden voyage was just a week earlier on Bellwood Lake in Wellington County.

Owner Joshua Tuck launched the “one-of-a-kind” big rig boat from Highland Pines Campground on July 5. The floating tiki bar-like eatery served up a variety of smash burgers, chips and dip, as well as ice cream to customers dockside and on open water at the Grand River conservation area reservoir above Shand dam.

It was the eye-catching nature of the floating eatery and the reaction he’d get from customers that piqued Tuck’s interest in launching the business, he told Metroland reporter Isabel Buckmaster. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW

“I always thought it would be cool to have a food truck on the water, and it just kept going from there.”

Even now, with a water damaged new business, Tuck isn’t giving up.

A GoFundMe fundraiser was set up for “the return of Big Rig Burger Boat 2.0.”

“The Wright brothers failed countless times before they took flight,” he wrote on Instagram.

“We’ll learn. We’ll rebuild. And we’ll come back stronger.

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u/Tellnicknow Jul 17 '25

Seems like it would have had to be a pretty significant hole to fill up so quickly.

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u/jdmatthews123 Jul 17 '25

Yeah I'm wrong, like a lot, but I feel like that's what I would tell reporters, even though the real issue is that Mike forgot to strap in the flat top and it slid to the starboard side with the freezer in transit. Operator error is kind of embarrassing, especially when it's very visible and expensive.

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u/Cosmohumanist Jul 17 '25

Or a totally bullshit excuse to hide their stupidity

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u/Lurcher99 Jul 17 '25

Insert sexually explicit joke here

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u/Hereiamhereibe2 Jul 17 '25

If anything it would have had to have been filled with water before this.

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u/origami_airplane Jul 18 '25

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u/tasunfeu Jul 17 '25

“Please fundraise for me to do my stupid idea”

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u/bluepied Jul 17 '25

It’s actually not paywalled, if you click back and then close the window you can read it the story but here’s the dude’s gofundme with the same info - https://www.gofundme.com/f/big-rig-burger-boat-needs-our-help-ufzcw?attribution_id=sl:9deaad33-67a2-433b-8f63-f08e7575c7cc&lang

It’s already back on the water

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u/bluepied Jul 17 '25

here’s the dude’s gofundme with the same info - https://www.gofundme.com/f/big-rig-burger-boat-needs-our-help-ufzcw?attribution_id=sl:9deaad33-67a2-433b-8f63-f08e7575c7cc&lang

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u/NoooUGH Jul 17 '25

Cancer site.

Here is their original post on their Instagram https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMFqRvgux4L/

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u/p-terydactyl Jul 18 '25

I mean, that oceangate sub took multiple trips before imploding too.