Owning a boat would be a dream come true for anyone. Nothing would be more amazing than hopping onto the SS [Insert Your Name Here] and sailing the seven seas. But sometimes, things don’t always go as planned, and your dream-come-true becomes an instant nightmare. Here are 50 sad, costly, yet hilarious boating mistakes caught on camera.

The anti-perfect example of putting your boat in water
Since the creation of cars, it’s been clear that they don’t belong in the water. Except, of course, amphibicars, but even those things are unreliable at best. If you want to travel to different islands, you’ll have to hop onto a boat, assuming you can get it in the water in the first place.

This guy failed the very first step. If anything, they should’ve reversed their truck and trailer to bring the boat into the water, keeping their car away from the coast. And to think that this costly mistake could’ve been avoided had they used a bit of common sense.