Cadillac,
Best of luck with finding your boat this weekend. Hopefully you can find it and get back in the water. (at minimal cost)   

Any word on this yet?   Is it happening today?

Any word on this yet

Ray posted something about seeing the boat gettting towed out on the "so..........." thread. 

What does this mean? What thread?

Rays in Parker or on his way home, prolly post more later. Caddilac may come on and post unless he's workin on the boat

Here's the pics I got. When I first saw it, Thanks everyone for your faith in me, lol.
I had just launched both boats and the pics were from the dock (Shoulda told becca to zoom in) They almost flipped it and sank it again, lol, as it turned almost all the way on it's side.

Kinda neat, they towed it in still a little underwater with the white baggies apparently stuffed in the bow and under the transom somehow. Asked if they needed help, they said no but couldn't find the owner, so I dunno if Cadillac got his boat back or not.











The first two pictures are from when it appeared to be flipping over.

Ray

I damn near had my bud pull one of the trucks down with my trailers to at least get it out of the water.

I can't imagine what the bill is for this stuff, maybe Ralph can. I can only guess there may be Hazmat issues as well.

Ray

Edit, actually, the county and state would have nothing to do with it. It's worse because it's in the Tonto National forest, so then falls under the Feds and the BLM. The state only supplies the law enforcement through Fish and Game, for which they get grants for doing.

I mighta missed another free boat? is that what yoou're telling me??

Ray

Yeah, I get it.  I'm hoping he was doing what I WOULDA DONE, and be in the marina bar gettin tanked!

Then I'd prolly just wanna lick my wounds and look at what I got left

BUT, if I were on here, and I'm jaded, I know you guys woulda helped me out and I'da used that resource. (you guys have been my support group anyway and you know why and how)

Only been a day guys, his baby went down, I'm sure it wasn't cheap to recover it, and in this economy, may be more to this than meets the eye.

But yeah, I'm dying to know too! Why start it and not follow through. I'm a follow through nut, and am kicking myself every day for no progress on the Yellow Submarine (actually causing me some stress), but I'm having too damn much fun with the ones I have running right now!!!!

Ray

Yeah SORRY guys! Just been busy as hell! The reason I wasnt there was I had some family matters that I had to take care of Sun morn and he didn't call me till 12:30 so I had to haul ass all the way from Gilbert to get there. I picked it up around 1 or 1:30 it had just finished draining.  Got it home and it was crunch time! Tore all the interior out of it, man did it stink like dirty pu@$y!!!! But all in all was not in too bad of shape, if thats possible to say after 2 weeks of 83 feet deep! Some pretty rough scratches on the rear where it was stuck in 2 feet of mud and wedged in between a tree, but no holes, thank god! The diver said it took over 1500lbs of air bag pressure just to get it out of the mud. I guess it was straight up and down just stuck like a lawn dart! My buddy came over and helped me try to save the motor he's been through this motor saving before so I'm glad he was there. We pulled all the plugs and started draining the oil or water should I say then he sprayed copious amounts of PB in the cylinders! Then we hand cranked the motor and it actually was turning great, BLASTING water out of the cylinders! Sprayed a bunch more PB into the cylinders and put new oil in it, then had to let it sit because it was already midnight and had to be up for work at 4am!  Yesterday we got the carb all cleaned and dryed out and all the electronics cleaned. Still can't believe the distributor, the starter and all the gauges still work not that I'm keeping the gauges they are f'd up looking! So anyways, the electric fuel pump was done and of course every place was already closed  so we just dumped gas in the carb, after going and buying a new batt  and she barked and kept on barking, she really really wants to come back to life!! I was suprised and happy   at how easily she wanted to fire up! So, I think after I get that new fuel pump and constant good fuel she'll run (fingers crossed tightly) after work! We'll let her run for like a minute or 2 and start draining oil again until I have clean oil. Thank you Ray for those pictures that is KICK ASS of you, you're the man!!!! As too the rest of you, I'm very thankful for all the concern and all the help! I really wanted to be badly but, sh!t happens right! I love that Jet Boaters are truley like a family and cool as hell when you get to know us, and not just loud, annoying, and pointless boats on the water like everybody thinks right! Fu@k them all! I'll keep all of you posted as to if she comes back to LIFE!

Glad to help Cadillac. Though I really didn't help in any way. The diver seemed cool enough, waving at me and asking if I knew the owner (To which I said well, kinda......).

They THEN asked if they needed to follow me around, who's been talking?

Figure out what you need. I have guages in the Saguaro and in this Hallet Brad just gave me (Faded, but prolly all work fine to get it through the season). Didn't catch how your seats were in there, but maybe someone has some laying around....( eh hem ...Aquaholic.........)

I got a girl that works for me in Chandler that is an upholsterer and artist and gawd knows what else she does well (She's kinda scarey and weird), but she'll work for cheap on your seats, or replacements if we can come up with them ( ah hem!....Aquaholic). lol.

Big thing is the engine. Lemme know how it works out, I'm a phone call and a heart beat away from you, a garage full of stuff I may or may not be able to ID, and now a yard full of boats! (Hallett is already going to get underway at another garage, once the blue one comes back, I have no room for it, lol) On that note, I'm thinking a SCJB Boat, I mean the graphics, colors, skull, everything all over it.

Ray

Good to hear you got your boat back and it was in "fixable condition". Most importantly,no one was hurt in this deal. Hope you get it back out soon Cadillac! Glad this deal is over for you!    Tracy