SoCal Jet Boats
Discussion => The No Wake Zone => WarZone => Topic started by: stc315 on October 04, 2008, 05:57:00 PM
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Went to the river today, had a blast but what a crazy day. First Marc and I headed back to Fisher's to pick up the bilge pump he got for me. I forget to turn on the header water and blue the crap outta the headers I just installed. Got the bilge pump in and then the boat didn't want to crank over. Cranked really slow, but on second try fired right up. Need a new starter (it's been submerged a couple of times lol). On the way back, we were cruising along staying close to the tullies and the wake boat is coming towards us. I signal that I'm staying to my right against the tullies. As we get closer he comes closer and closer to me squeezing me closer to the tullies as I pass I see his wake is massive so I back off and his wake tosses me straight towards the tullies. Marc is getting whipped so I crank the wheel hard left and stomp on it which saves us but I can hear that I sucked up massive amounts of reeds & grass. We limp up to a sand bar and Marc jumps out and pulls out a dozen wads of grass and reeds. I got a ton of reeds in the right side of the boat. We fire up with no problems and get back to the sand bar where everybody was wondering what happened. We show them all the reeds. All is good till we packed up and were on the way back and I ran out of gas. No biggie, switch tanks and we should be good to go. You guessed it, it doesn't want to crank over. Wait about 5 and it cranks right up and we're on our way. No more problems. I get home start unpacking and as I'm walking around the boat I realize the driver's side muffler blew out. It's at the bottom of the river somewhere. Anyway, the weather was really nice. Overcast with cool breeze, water was perfect. And there where a lot of really fast boats at the sandbar and they were doing some racing. It was a pretty cool time!!!
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DUDE what a great story!...thats what these POS jetboats are for...times like those...good chit bud.
Reid
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If I was staying to the right and some D*ck continued to squeeze me toward shore I would have thrown my fire extingusher at him. Maybe the knot on his head would help him awake up! >:D
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sounds like one of my trips,, hahhaha.. always a good time though