BAproject
Petty Officer 1st Class
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- Sep 2, 2009
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...that I am no longer embarrassed to share.
So I am new to the boating world and as some know I am currently working on a project boat.
So the day I got here I decided the first thing to do was give her a bath inside and out. The outside went fine, but the inside present a couple of issues. Bayliner, in all of there wisdom decide to put only on drain hole under the back seating area, so unless the boat is tipped @45 degrees water don't drain out. Another problem I noticed was that water was accumilating rapidly in the ski locker.
This is where my stupidity really set in (which I realize now but only worried about then). The ski locker taking on water means that the tube leading to the stern was obviously blocked. So I grab the first thing handy, a heavy gauge drop ceiling rod (the ones used for hanging drop ceilings). I snake it through and notice it is not come through the other side. Of course the whole time I'm thinking that this little 1 inch pipe runs all the way thru.
Well, it doesn't! So I forced it a bit and finally it came through the hole on the other side and began to drain. Shortly after it backed up again. So I take my hose put the spray nozzle right on the drain hole in the locker and pull the trigger. Water start shooting out over the top if the gas tank. At this point I am severly confused as to how that's happening!
some crap came out as I flushed it back and forth. Since that day every time I open the ski locker I smell gas fumes. So now I am wondering if I have to cut the deck up to ull the tank and inspect it.
Long story short, one small idiotic move and now I have to pull out the saw and redo the decking on my boat, because I think I may have poked a nice little hole in the tank with the wire.
-BAproject
PS-feel free to share your "not so smart" stories
So I am new to the boating world and as some know I am currently working on a project boat.
So the day I got here I decided the first thing to do was give her a bath inside and out. The outside went fine, but the inside present a couple of issues. Bayliner, in all of there wisdom decide to put only on drain hole under the back seating area, so unless the boat is tipped @45 degrees water don't drain out. Another problem I noticed was that water was accumilating rapidly in the ski locker.
This is where my stupidity really set in (which I realize now but only worried about then). The ski locker taking on water means that the tube leading to the stern was obviously blocked. So I grab the first thing handy, a heavy gauge drop ceiling rod (the ones used for hanging drop ceilings). I snake it through and notice it is not come through the other side. Of course the whole time I'm thinking that this little 1 inch pipe runs all the way thru.
Well, it doesn't! So I forced it a bit and finally it came through the hole on the other side and began to drain. Shortly after it backed up again. So I take my hose put the spray nozzle right on the drain hole in the locker and pull the trigger. Water start shooting out over the top if the gas tank. At this point I am severly confused as to how that's happening!
some crap came out as I flushed it back and forth. Since that day every time I open the ski locker I smell gas fumes. So now I am wondering if I have to cut the deck up to ull the tank and inspect it.
Long story short, one small idiotic move and now I have to pull out the saw and redo the decking on my boat, because I think I may have poked a nice little hole in the tank with the wire.
-BAproject
PS-feel free to share your "not so smart" stories
. I never wash the inside of the boat with a hose
