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Aquanautical Comments Made

Jimway

Jimway

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From the Book of Jim,Chapter on Unsolisited Comments Made While Underway. Passenger: "I see you carry a spare bilge plug ", You know you don't. Person on board: Whaazzzat? Fishin Buddy: Oh-oh, here comes... to be filled in by such words as Wife, police, game warden, girl friend, Coast Gaurd,brother, sister, Army, Navy, etc, etc. Me, while comming thru the Narrows at tide change, and hearing the motor cough: " You still haven't fixed the gas gauge?", and the owner of the boat looks back seriously and says " How much fuel did you put in this morning?", and I know I didn't put any fuel in. " Sounds like somthin nockin?" Passenger: " Is that smoke?" Comments like: "Loook out", "Duck", "What's that?" "What the...".
"Aww", and for even more faster reactions, "Aww", followed by "Holy", followed by words like heck, crud, shoot, darn, freak, etc. etc. Person driving vessel:" Damn if she aint runnin hot, the oil pressure gage must a just broke, we should have enough gas to get in" Wife, as she splashes down into the cuddy, "Is there supposed to be this much water down here?", and you know there aint supposed to be no water down there. Passenger: "That don't smell good". Passenger: "I smell gas" and you are thinkin either the taco breakfast or a fuel leak, but dont want to ask which one they smell. Fishin Buddy:"Looks like the tide is commin in from under the engin hatch again". Anyone in the boat screams "Hold on". Fishin Buddy while drivin your vessel to a special fishin spot that supposedly contains some Granddady salmon: "I know them rocks are right here someplace"....
 
Jimway said:
From the Book of Jim,Chapter on Unsolisited Comments Made While Underway. Passenger: "I see you carry a spare bilge plug ", You know you don't. ..
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I heard this story from my boss. He said it worked out well in the end but scared the crap out of him.
 
I remember one time taking out the fishing boat. Vessel is a 19 foot Rienell with a Jimbuilt inline Volvo six with all kinds of goodies for speed, swingin the biggest prop we could on a 280 outdrive.I'm drivin my old mans truck and he jumps into the boat while I'm backin down the ramp. I tell em to remove the transom straps and DOUBLE check the bilge plug and he gives me either a thumbs up or a one finger salute, I can't remember which. The boat comes off the trailer and it's sittin there camming out and warming up as me and my buddy park the truck up the hill from the boat ramp. On the five minute walk down the hill from the parking lot, I'm tellin my buddy that the boat is sure ridein low in the water. As the boat gets turned around pointed out toward the bay, I can now see all three pump openings spewing water. When I increduously ask about the bilge plug, the old man reaches over and holds it up for all to see. His smile ever so slowly went from a smile to a concerned frown as I pointed toward the water raising in the stern with my hands on my hips. Water was COLD that morning, kind of felt good gettin in his nice warm truck while I was drippin wet with salt water...
 
For those who don't know what to do when this happens the easiest way to get water out is run the boat full throttle this will create a vaccuum of sorts that will drain water, after water level down shut off engine (you don't want a spinning prop for the next step), jump in water and install bilge plug, all should be o.k. now.
 
Jimway said:
I can now see all three pump openings spewing water. When I increduously ask about the bilge plug, the old man reaches over and holds it up for all to see. His smile ever so slowly went from a smile to a concerned frown as I pointed toward the water raising in the stern with my hands on my hips.
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Similar thing happened to us years ago, mom backs truck down ramp and dad launches boat. As he is docking mom starts to pull out of water when another boat pulls on our trailer at full throttle. Here comes dad flying down the dock teaching me words I have never heard before, only to find out they forgot their plug and didn't want to sink, turns out they were staying a couple sites down from us so dad apologized for his behavior and told them once all the water was out of their boat to please park the truck and put the keys on the visor.
 
One nite I was out at the achorage, rafted off to a pretty good party, The most central boat to the party had a little 10-12 ft playboat with it tied of the stern. I work my way over to say hi to the guy, him and his friends are working feverishly to keep the little boat a float. Some how they lost the plug. I had an extra so I gave it to a friend of his to install.
He says He thinks he did it right (I thinking its not brain surgery) well sure enough it was still taling on water. So I went back to my boat dug around and found a 2nd extra plug, walk it over and told them I'll put an end to this nonsense jumped in and did myself, mind you its about 12am by now. Anyway he was so happy I was able to vist his cooler the rest of the nite!

I can bench race all day (really Im at work):cheers:
 
When I was really little my dad and my uncle went halves on an old 14 footer with an Evinrude 40 on it. Well not too long after they are with my mom and my aunt running around the lake water skiing and what not when they see a young couple in another boat frantically waving their arms in the air. They go over and the people are freaking out because the boat is sinking, they were new to boating and forgot to put the plug in. My dad gives them the spare plug he has on board and they guy promptly drops it in the water so they were S.O.L. because he didn't have another spare. Sometimes you just gotta shake your head.

John
 
Coupla more comments: Fishin Buddy comes runnin toward the boat that's beached while he was answerin the call of nature," Which Bear has the hump on it's back?" Person that borrowed the fishin boat calls ya up on the cell phone and asks "What would make the trollin motor go racka racka racka racka racka whump?" Comment: "Well it seemed like a good idea at the time" Comment:"Hold on, cause I never tried this before" Comment:"I know were overloaded, but I'm pretty sure we'll clear the rocks" Comment: "Does everyboby have a life preserver on?" Comment: Boat driver suddenly pinns throttle and yanks the wheel to port and says,"This may leave a mark" Comment:"Throw out the anchor, throw out the anchor" Comment: After bein woke up from a nice warm nap at the back of the boat,"Can you swim?"....
 
I had a 16 ft sportfire,I was dating a girl with a older 26 formula intercepter. We taken the boats over to an island to camp for the nite. Had a great nite but the next morning had Gale Force winds move in blowing the water out. Got out of the tent to find my boat beached by 25 ft! Thank goodness we anchored hers.
It took me 20 minutes to turn the bow out, Then we had to tie our anchor together 200' ft of line then used her boat to slowly drag my off the beach. over and over I'd gather the up and then tell her to hit it. My boat would move 6" to a 1' each time. Then 3-5 fts ( had to circle out into Erie) on the way home. Ah!!! Good Times
 
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