Here's Two for you

[clinton152]

New guy here and have posted in some of the other forums and learned a lot of things. Very smart people here that are willing to help. Found this area and had to share a couple. Most of my boating has been done in Minnesota on the mighty Mississippi just north of the locks between 694 and the Coon Rapids dam. One spring day, while the current was just moving right along, a father and son team showed up with their winter project and were launching it for the first time. It took them forever...Little more,little more, with the Lincoln town car. The trailer was a pivot trailer and the boat was not secured with a tag line. He hit the pin..the trailer did its thing, the boat rolled out into the river unmanned and no tag line. Mind you the lock and dam is just a couple miles down and the current is moving. The guy looks at me and says WOW look at the current. The son dives in and thinks he can swim to the boat. Bad idea. We dropped mine in quickly and rescued his boat before going over the dam. The look on his face was unforgetable. Here is my bonehead on the river...20' Tahiti 454 Chevy 600 hp. Starter was always a problem..Turn the key sometimes it would start other times nothing. Hey what about a simple switch to the starter??Sounds easy!! Well I really couldnt find the perfect switch and settled on a toggle. Turned the key, hit the toggle, strarted right up, and off I went. Very loud boat.. Hey whats the smell?? Oh ya you have to turn the starter off!! Straight to shore for a short day of boating and a new starter. Boating in Southwest Florida is a different game. Winterizing or Saltwater Guess for now its boating all year. Shucks!

 

[wildmaninal]

Re: Here's Two for you

It's a good thing you were there to help out. He learned a valuable lesson I bet. Was there any boat traffic out there? Must not of been if ya had to launch and catch his boat.

Reminds me of the Bill Dance bloopers where they launch his bass boat without him in it. Here Bill Dance is trying to stop the man from backing in all along but the driver of the truck didn't here him.

I launch my bass boat one time with my cousin and 2 of his kids. My tag line came undone off of the cleat. My cousin's 11 year old daughter volunteered to walk out to the boat and tie the rope back on. I don't recall being the last person to tie the rope on to the cleat, but now a days I try to look over at it to see how good it's tied.

Nice job on the starter by the way .

 

[chiefalen]

Re: Here's Two for you

All you need is a momentary push button switch for the starter.

When you touch it it pops up. Even a door bell push button switch would work.