Boating Blues

[CrazyHippy]

I can compete on this thread... 3rd trip out (ran 106mph on 2nd trip)

[CrazyHippy]

Broke a propshaft somewhere around 80mph, just getting back into the throttle, and Over revved the motor....

[fourspeednup]

mmmmmmm, carnage

[CrazyHippy]

yeah, at 7:15 am on Casitas... DAMNIT
Ever been towed in by a bass boat??

[surfer2001]

January 03 I purchase a used 25 foot bow rider for 18 grand, it had a 454 MAG EFI motor. The boat had only 132 hours on it. I thought I stole it, 3rd time out it started coughing and jerking after leaving a no wake zone. (At high RPM no problem). The problem repeated itself after every low RPM running. I took it in thinking I had a fuel filter issue. EFI computer had no error messages, so they took a compression test. BAD results, turns out I needed a valve job because the valves were tuliped due to bad, old, stale gas. ($3000.00) To fix because they had to pull the motor to work on it. Next starter, then alternator, then drive issues. By the end of the season I put $9000.00 into it. By this time the wife hates it, this actually is good because together we decide to get a new 04, 25-foot Nordic Rage. Couldn’t be happier no issues and we have a 5-year warrantee. As they say “that’s boating”.

[AdrenelineOD]

Originally posted by CrazyHippy
yeah, at 7:15 am on Casitas... DAMNIT
Ever been towed in by a bass boat??
How bout one of thesehttp://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/1425tow_rig-med.jpg

[fourspeednup]

Originally posted by CrazyHippy
yeah, at 7:15 am on Casitas... DAMNIT
Ever been towed in by a bass boat??
Casitas? That's my back yard...
Got towed by 4 15 yr/old tweakers in a camo-paint aluminum boat with a 10hp O/B......upriver back to topock. Then they ran out of gas

[Wicked1]

Sorry to hear about everyones rides, at least i know i amnot alonein frustration ... i got towed in at Casitas by a little 8 ft rental boat going about 2mph it took us what seemed like eternity to get to a dock...

[Kilrtoy]

Sorry to hear that wicked 1

[cigarette1]

2 weeks before Poker Run
Got T-boned by a pontoon .. $$
Pushed into shallow water .. $$
Hit props ... $$
Damaged drive coupler u-joint .. $$
U-joint broke while on plane .. $$
Destroyed bellhousing and many other parts ... $$
Will be fixed by Savage Marine in time for the Poker Run ... $Priceless$
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