Hi All, new to this forum but have read a bunch of the threads from this section and love the stories and felt it time to share. I did a renovation on a 1989 Sunbird spl194 with a 90 hp mercury but I will post that info in the resoration section. Wanted to share my maiden voyage. Now this is my first boat EVER and I am 55 yeras old. Got the boat for free and on July 5th backed it in my driveway. Did all the renovation and set out on Sunday August 19th in the Lynn Mass harbor with my fiance'. Launch went like clock work. Should have since I did it 100 times in my head and practiced driving the trailer in the local school parking lot. So out we go and fiind a nice place and have lunch, set anchor..again just like I planned. Go to start and flood the motor. Called my neighbor who comes over with starting fluid, we get it going and start to head in. Choppy but not bad, hit a couple of waves side to side and I go down like I got shot in the leg. Blew out the tendon that holds the knee cap in place....ouch. Thank god the neighbor is still with us. As I went down I cut the throttle and they got him in my boat and his daughter in his boat and in we went (Knee cap up in my thigh). Got in and the ambulance is waiting but they can not get me out of the boat so call fire dept and they get me out and into ambulance....surgery...recovery.........STINKS. no more boating this year (i think, he...he).
Thanks all for stories and information.
Thanks all for stories and information.
