Re: When did Murphy visit you?
That's Murphy that causes that? I thought is was a boat gremlin.
Either way one of the two woke up with me Tuesday morning, and blessed me with a series of trailer brake issues, and light problems before I even hit the water. Started at 6am hoping for a noon splash time which didn't happen until 3.No problems encountered on the way to the lake, but upon arrival at planned lake,found out it was 6' low, so had to trailer to another nearby lake that was only 1' low.Next opportunity for them to show up was the launching ramp;The winch hook and bow eye on my new setup sits above the V block on my trailer, so the hook and bow eye got stuck on the V block, and had one heck of a time trying to get the thing of the trailer. Then went to fire it up once off the trailer, and the starter just turned without grabbing for the first five tries.:facepalm:Finally get her fired up to go sit in the middle of the lake while the Admiral goes to weigh the trailer for registration purposes, she gets lost on the way back from the weigh station.The Admiral finally arrived back to the lake very frazzled, head back to the dock to pick her up, and the next opportunity for their appearance arrived. While out on the lake, I was running on the wrong gas tank (the one with 1/4 tank of old gas, and who knows what else in it) and boat started idling a little rough.Arrive back at launch ramp, idling in, and motor stalled 20' away from the dock.
(did pull an nice drift next to the open dock on the other side of the ramp though; good thing it was empty.
) Picked her up, and headed back out so after the day from hell, she could actually get to enjoy the boat for a few minutes; then it started pouring down rain.The following day I found my bow eye on my boat loose and missing a rivet.If I ever get my hands on either Murphy or the boat gremlin, I'm going to beat the turd to oblivion with and oar!
