smokeonthewater
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Almost met up w a fellow iboater today but...........
So last week I picked up a couple of Kaw zxi900 jetskis and put some wrench time into gettin em running... today a friend and I took em out on the Ohio river and about 7 miles up river I smacked something in the water at about 50 mph... less than a minute later I was in the water next to a mostly submerged ski..... sooo we push pull and drag it up onto a log at the bank and drain the water and I take off on the other one for the dock... )wow the river was rough today).... I get home and hook up to the montecarlo and another friend hooks up the the ski trailer... we head back to the river and 3 hours after leaving him we get back to the friend sitting with the busted ski.... He informs me that of the 30-50 boats and a couple dozen ski's that went by he heard several people make comments about the half sunk jetski but not one single person offered to help a guy stranded on a small island in the ohio river... disgusting... we didn't need help but still....
Sooo after riding the other ski back and going home to get the boat, I strapped a throwable pfd over the hole with two ratchet straps and pumped out the water... then we floated it to the back of the boat and the three of us wrestled one edge onto the swim platform and strapped it up out of the water...... The wellcraft DID get on plane with the ski there but man did she point for the stars for a while as she worked to gain speed.... what a day... $280 in gas and one busted jetski for a day on the water...... WORTH IT....... sorta
Well I HAD planned to meet up with chriscraft254 but I guess that will be another day.....
ps the engine of the ski was fully submerged but I did manage to get it empty and eventually got it fired up... will do a compression test tomorrow but I think it's ok.....
So last week I picked up a couple of Kaw zxi900 jetskis and put some wrench time into gettin em running... today a friend and I took em out on the Ohio river and about 7 miles up river I smacked something in the water at about 50 mph... less than a minute later I was in the water next to a mostly submerged ski..... sooo we push pull and drag it up onto a log at the bank and drain the water and I take off on the other one for the dock... )wow the river was rough today).... I get home and hook up to the montecarlo and another friend hooks up the the ski trailer... we head back to the river and 3 hours after leaving him we get back to the friend sitting with the busted ski.... He informs me that of the 30-50 boats and a couple dozen ski's that went by he heard several people make comments about the half sunk jetski but not one single person offered to help a guy stranded on a small island in the ohio river... disgusting... we didn't need help but still....
Sooo after riding the other ski back and going home to get the boat, I strapped a throwable pfd over the hole with two ratchet straps and pumped out the water... then we floated it to the back of the boat and the three of us wrestled one edge onto the swim platform and strapped it up out of the water...... The wellcraft DID get on plane with the ski there but man did she point for the stars for a while as she worked to gain speed.... what a day... $280 in gas and one busted jetski for a day on the water...... WORTH IT....... sorta
Well I HAD planned to meet up with chriscraft254 but I guess that will be another day.....
ps the engine of the ski was fully submerged but I did manage to get it empty and eventually got it fired up... will do a compression test tomorrow but I think it's ok.....
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You're down to 1.5 - Positively rosy now. Get a few of the pine tree air fresheners to toss inside.