Ditto to Silverking's comment!!!! There's always another day to fish!!! Glad you guys are ok. Hope you get your boat issues solved pronto!silverking wrote:Glad you were able to maintain headway, Steve and I don't blame you for sticking with it.
If you were in trouble, though, I would have gladly rendered assistance despite the tourney rules and I'll bet others would have also. I was less than a couple miles away. Potential life-threatening situations always take precedence over fishing.
Hope everything works out with your claim.
Yet another sinkng....
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My 10 yr. old son Andrew and I spent yesterday evening removing the motor, cables, wiring, electronics and everything else from our damaged boat and putting it in the garage. One thing I found that surprised me - my battery posts, and some of the wiring to the bilge and depth finder were burned badly.
I am real sure I would have had a fire if I hadn't had so much water in the boat.
My battery was beneath my rear deck in a plastic box with no lid. I guess the water in the boat floated it high enough to ground both the positive and negative post against the underside of the aluminum deck. This is why I was feeling electricity going through my fingers when I was removing the grass from the motor. I was grounding myself back to the motor. I am amazed that the motor kept restarting the 9 or 10 times that we had to shut it down to clean the intake.
When I re-wire the new hull, I am going to leave a couple feet of extra wire near the battery so that if this ever happens again, I can pull the battery out of the storage box and set it on a higher point in the boat.
Steve Stinson
I am real sure I would have had a fire if I hadn't had so much water in the boat.
My battery was beneath my rear deck in a plastic box with no lid. I guess the water in the boat floated it high enough to ground both the positive and negative post against the underside of the aluminum deck. This is why I was feeling electricity going through my fingers when I was removing the grass from the motor. I was grounding myself back to the motor. I am amazed that the motor kept restarting the 9 or 10 times that we had to shut it down to clean the intake.
When I re-wire the new hull, I am going to leave a couple feet of extra wire near the battery so that if this ever happens again, I can pull the battery out of the storage box and set it on a higher point in the boat.
Steve Stinson