I have a good friend that is a member here but doesn't post much anymore.
He called me a couple weeks ago and wanted to go fishing that Saturday morning at the 1,000 acre lake.
I am all for it and my son was off work too so that made it even better.
We meet up and load our crap into his boat.
He has a 4 or 5 year old VERY nice Phoenix boat. Absolutely awesome piece of machinery.
I guess here is where I need to tell some backstory first:
Last summer he let a friend of his borrow his boat.
He told him if anything was to happen just let him know as he has insurance on it.
The guy came and got it and brought it back and put it back in his shop and left a $50.00 gift card on the deck.
About a week later he walked by it and noticed a big scratch on the side of it. He was kinda sick over it but as he said, it happens.
Then he walked around the other side of it (he was putting the cover on it) and noticed the rubber "seal" that is between the top & bottom halves of the boat was actually sticking out a little bit.
He called his buddy and he said a big storm blew up and they had to run into a slip to get cover from the storm and he guessed the waves beat it against the side of the slip and did it.
:shock:
So my buddy carries it off somewhere to have it fixed. Good as new but he had to pay the deductible, with no help from his friend.
While his boat was in the hospital he ran into another friend who asked about his boat.
He said it is getting fixed now, that storm beat it up pretty bad.
Storm??? BS ! We watched the guy pull it out and it slid off the trailer and he pulled it all the way up the ramp sliding behind the trailer!!! :shock: :shock:
Well, that explains alot right there. :bash:
Now fast forward to us going fishing.
My buddy and I were in the boat and my son was backing us down the ramp and I say...
You got the plug in? I don't know about these fancy boats so I thought I would ask.
Never take it out.
Thumbs up.
We launch and fire it up and idle around while Man gets back to the dock.
We take off (at just over an idle) and go to the far end of the lake, to the dam end, and right before we get to where we were gonna start fishing the motor starts running real rough and I ask if it was supposed to sound like that, since I don't know nothing about these fancy boats.
Uhhh no it's not... then it quits.
He is looking back over his shoulder while trying to start it and says.... why is my bilge pump running?
I don't know nothing about these fancy boats but I would say because it's full of water.
oke:
He tries to crank it several times and it won't start. So he gets on the trolling motor and we start back towards the ramp. (In 50+ feet deep water with 20mph winds)
Then he says my trolling motor is messed up, it won't turn off.
I guess that's better than it won't turn on, but I don't know nothing about these fancy boats.
(See the trend here?)
He had actually found a mouse bed in one of the compartments and he figured they had chewed a wire or something.
So we are steadily heading back and the bilge is still pumping at full volume and he says I hope it ain't leaking where they fixed it.
You haven't had it in the water since you got it back?
Nope.
My son says, I like that rainsuit you got on.
Thanks, I really like it. It is a bass pro 100 mph suit. They are pricey but worth every penny.
I like it too, I thought about buying one, but I put all my money into a motor that runs.
We get back, finally, and start the process of trying to load a 20 something foot long bass boat with a trolling motor that don't work right in 20+ mph winds.
The second time we hit the concrete ramp with the nose of his boat my son says, you might want to raise the big motor up before it hits.
I get over in the drivers seat and raise the motor and he gets us turned around headed back out to make another try at the trailer.
Just for kicks I lower the motor and hit the key.
Fires right up.
He looks at me with a confused face and I say, I don't know nothing about these fancy boats but it is running good now.oke:
So we sit there and look at each other with the "what in the world" look and finally I say, you wannna load it with the big motor now?
So I move over and gets in the seat. About the time he puts it in gear it quits again. :bash:
FINALLY we get the boat loaded and pull it out of the water.
My son gets down on the ground, after all the water runs out of the boat, and screws in the drain plug.
Apparently they unscrewed it when they were working on it at the shop.
I say, that's neat, I don't know nothing about these fancy boats but mine goes in from the inside.
I finally ease up on him a bit since he is obviously upset that his motor won't run.
He calls later that day and the preliminary diagnosis is the computer is fried and he is looking at 2 grand or better to fix it.
They are going to TRY to get Mercury to warrenty it but he don't know if they can pull it off or not, his warrenty ran out like 6 months ago.
A week later he calls and says they hooked it up and figure they will start with replacing some kind of computer board that is about $300 and go from there.
He called me yesterday. He got his boat back and it runs perfectly and they narrowed it down to the root cause of the whole problem with it.
snicker...........................
It was out of gas. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
I guess on them fancy boats, if you let it get completely empty it will kinda "vapor lock" and it won't take any gas unless you let it go in very very slowly when you first start.
He had tried to fill it up the morning we went fishing and he said it wouldn't take a drop of gas, because it was already full. He said he likes to keep it nearly full all the time because he can't afford to fill it up all at one time. LOL
So a $300 computer board and $113 worth of gas and he is ready to roll again.
He said he guessed someone stole his gas out of it in his shop.
I got to thinking about it later last night and I bet ya a 100 dollar bill someone stole his gas while it was whereever he had it fixed at.
I am glad it wasn't worse for him, for two reasons:
Number one, because he is a great guy and I am super glad it didn't cost him in the thousands of dollars to fix it.
Number two, and more importantly, I get to ride him like a borrowed mule from now on about this, at least till I do something stupid and he has ammo against me.
Oh and when all this went down I posted to him on facebook with just a picture of a drain plug.
This morning I posted a picture of a gas pump to him. :tu:
Love ya man!
He called me a couple weeks ago and wanted to go fishing that Saturday morning at the 1,000 acre lake.
I am all for it and my son was off work too so that made it even better.
We meet up and load our crap into his boat.
He has a 4 or 5 year old VERY nice Phoenix boat. Absolutely awesome piece of machinery.
I guess here is where I need to tell some backstory first:
Last summer he let a friend of his borrow his boat.
He told him if anything was to happen just let him know as he has insurance on it.
The guy came and got it and brought it back and put it back in his shop and left a $50.00 gift card on the deck.
About a week later he walked by it and noticed a big scratch on the side of it. He was kinda sick over it but as he said, it happens.
Then he walked around the other side of it (he was putting the cover on it) and noticed the rubber "seal" that is between the top & bottom halves of the boat was actually sticking out a little bit.
He called his buddy and he said a big storm blew up and they had to run into a slip to get cover from the storm and he guessed the waves beat it against the side of the slip and did it.
:shock:
So my buddy carries it off somewhere to have it fixed. Good as new but he had to pay the deductible, with no help from his friend.
While his boat was in the hospital he ran into another friend who asked about his boat.
He said it is getting fixed now, that storm beat it up pretty bad.
Storm??? BS ! We watched the guy pull it out and it slid off the trailer and he pulled it all the way up the ramp sliding behind the trailer!!! :shock: :shock:
Well, that explains alot right there. :bash:
Now fast forward to us going fishing.
My buddy and I were in the boat and my son was backing us down the ramp and I say...
You got the plug in? I don't know about these fancy boats so I thought I would ask.
Never take it out.
Thumbs up.
We launch and fire it up and idle around while Man gets back to the dock.
We take off (at just over an idle) and go to the far end of the lake, to the dam end, and right before we get to where we were gonna start fishing the motor starts running real rough and I ask if it was supposed to sound like that, since I don't know nothing about these fancy boats.
Uhhh no it's not... then it quits.
He is looking back over his shoulder while trying to start it and says.... why is my bilge pump running?
I don't know nothing about these fancy boats but I would say because it's full of water.
oke: He tries to crank it several times and it won't start. So he gets on the trolling motor and we start back towards the ramp. (In 50+ feet deep water with 20mph winds)
Then he says my trolling motor is messed up, it won't turn off.
I guess that's better than it won't turn on, but I don't know nothing about these fancy boats.
(See the trend here?)He had actually found a mouse bed in one of the compartments and he figured they had chewed a wire or something.
So we are steadily heading back and the bilge is still pumping at full volume and he says I hope it ain't leaking where they fixed it.
You haven't had it in the water since you got it back?
Nope.
My son says, I like that rainsuit you got on.
Thanks, I really like it. It is a bass pro 100 mph suit. They are pricey but worth every penny.
I like it too, I thought about buying one, but I put all my money into a motor that runs.
We get back, finally, and start the process of trying to load a 20 something foot long bass boat with a trolling motor that don't work right in 20+ mph winds.
The second time we hit the concrete ramp with the nose of his boat my son says, you might want to raise the big motor up before it hits.
I get over in the drivers seat and raise the motor and he gets us turned around headed back out to make another try at the trailer.
Just for kicks I lower the motor and hit the key.
Fires right up.
He looks at me with a confused face and I say, I don't know nothing about these fancy boats but it is running good now.
oke: So we sit there and look at each other with the "what in the world" look and finally I say, you wannna load it with the big motor now?
So I move over and gets in the seat. About the time he puts it in gear it quits again. :bash:
FINALLY we get the boat loaded and pull it out of the water.
My son gets down on the ground, after all the water runs out of the boat, and screws in the drain plug.
Apparently they unscrewed it when they were working on it at the shop.
I say, that's neat, I don't know nothing about these fancy boats but mine goes in from the inside.
I finally ease up on him a bit since he is obviously upset that his motor won't run.
He calls later that day and the preliminary diagnosis is the computer is fried and he is looking at 2 grand or better to fix it.
They are going to TRY to get Mercury to warrenty it but he don't know if they can pull it off or not, his warrenty ran out like 6 months ago.
A week later he calls and says they hooked it up and figure they will start with replacing some kind of computer board that is about $300 and go from there.
He called me yesterday. He got his boat back and it runs perfectly and they narrowed it down to the root cause of the whole problem with it.
snicker...........................
It was out of gas. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
I guess on them fancy boats, if you let it get completely empty it will kinda "vapor lock" and it won't take any gas unless you let it go in very very slowly when you first start.
He had tried to fill it up the morning we went fishing and he said it wouldn't take a drop of gas, because it was already full. He said he likes to keep it nearly full all the time because he can't afford to fill it up all at one time. LOL
So a $300 computer board and $113 worth of gas and he is ready to roll again.
He said he guessed someone stole his gas out of it in his shop.
I got to thinking about it later last night and I bet ya a 100 dollar bill someone stole his gas while it was whereever he had it fixed at.
I am glad it wasn't worse for him, for two reasons:
Number one, because he is a great guy and I am super glad it didn't cost him in the thousands of dollars to fix it.
Number two, and more importantly, I get to ride him like a borrowed mule from now on about this, at least till I do something stupid and he has ammo against me.
Oh and when all this went down I posted to him on facebook with just a picture of a drain plug.
This morning I posted a picture of a gas pump to him. :tu:
Love ya man!
