Check your pump man

[Ricky Spanish]

My manual sucks it's from Johnson.

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It's not a hard task to rebuild the water pump.
Haven't done mine in at least 5 years so maybe I better just do it.
Every other year I put new oil in the lower unit.
I've gotten away with poor maintenance for years I better get busy.
New plugs an everything.
Then buy a new boat or something.

You can always use 2 more feet of boat and 25 more horsepower.

[Rick]

Was an annual thing during my Capt. Rick phase. Lot of sand in the redfish and flounder shallows.

[Ricky Spanish]

Was an annual thing during my Capt. Rick phase. Lot of sand in the redfish and flounder shallows.

I'm usually running in pretty clean water.
Can afford a new pump kit.
It's freaky easy if you've got the tools.
Last weekend mine was working fine so "it worked great last time".
Isn't that what we all say?

[Anotherone]

What does the acronym B O A T stand for again?

[Ricky Spanish]

What does the acronym B O A T stand for again?

Internet says
"Bust out another thousand"

[Anotherone]

Yep!!

[Anotherone]

Another common one is:
The 2 greatest days of boat ownership is the day you bought it and the day you sell it.

[SpinnerMan]

Years ago, I had something chew up my impeller and I ended up burning up the motor. What sucked worse is I had drug my boat to Florida and had a whole vacation planned around it. Crapped out on the Crystal River. When I pulled off to the side to see what was wrong. My wife was with me. All of the sudden a shitload of vultures landed in the trees around us Looked like they were thinking "tourist for dinner." Thankfully a commercial fisherman, I think crabs, helped us out and towed us back to the launch about 2 miles away.

On the plus side, we scrapped our plans and headed across the Everglades. While sightseeing on one of the unmaintained side roads we had a panther walk across the road in front of us.