My baby tried to kill me today

[Bobcat]

This is the 2nd time this year that a woman has tried to kill me .got to the marina, had the boat put in the water, batteries were dead(left the switch on) jump start, filled the tank, idled out for twenty minutes then jumped up on plane, was standing till she got on plane then sat down and the gas fumes were overwhelming, my buddy goes back and opens the hatch into the bilge where the batteries are (outboard boat) and there is 12 gallons of gas sloshing around the batteries ( I know this because that is how much went into the buckets) so I come off plane and turn back to the marina s h i t t ing bricks , my hands and knees are shaking so bad I can barely steer, turned off all electronics and idled back 25 -30 minutes , probably should have jumped ship but made it back to the docks, did not even bother to put it in reverse just turned it off and hit the dock hard .

[Bobcat]

got the fork lift driver to put it on a work rack, top of the tank (aluminum) is split took out the drain plug and emptied 12 gallons of fuel into a bucket , siphoned out the rest into jerry cans and put it into the other boat. this boat must have found out about the other boat and decided to kill us all (womens is like that) I probably won't s h i t for a week. now I need a new fuel tank , who do I go to ? some pics (this is my never breaks down reliable boat)

[Ratickle]

This is the 2nd time this year that a woman has tried to kill me .got to the marina, had the boat put in the water, batteries were dead(left the switch on) jump start, filled the tank, idled out for twenty minutes then jumped up on plane, was standing till she got on plane then sat down and the gas fumes were overwhelming, my buddy goes back and opens the hatch into the bilge where the batteries are (outboard boat) and there is 12 gallons of gas sloshing around the batteries ( I know this because that is how much went into the buckets) so I come off plane and turn back to the marina s h i t t ing bricks , my hands and knees are shaking so bad I can barely steer, turned off all electronics and idled back 25 -30 minutes , probably should have jumped ship but made it back to the docks, did not even bother to put it in reverse just turned it off and hit the dock hard .

Holy crap Bobcat, what the heck happened?

[Ratickle]

got the fork lift driver to put it on a work rack, top of the tank (aluminum) is split took out the drain plug and emptied 12 gallons of fuel into a bucket , siphoned out the rest into jerry cans and put it into the other boat. this boat must have found out about the other boat and decided to kill us all (womens is like that) I probably won't s h i t for a week. now I need a new fuel tank , who do I go to ? some pics (this is my never breaks down reliable boat)

Now I know, too quick on the questions........

[Bobcat]

some pics

[Bobcat]

more , fund razor must have left a bucket at garrison bight marina

[Bobcat]

that is the scariest time I have had since the military !!!!!

[Bobcat]

I am not afraid to die, I am afraid to be burned half to death and live !

[Ratickle]

that is the scariest time I have had since the military !!!!!

Be very thankful it wasn't an IO or inboard boat and that you don't smoke..... (Like this little guy).

[Bobcat]

2009 has been a b i t c h so far

[Bobcat]

I still smell gas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ratickle]

I still smell gas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go for a swim, and buy a lotto ticket...


It's your frigin lucky day.....

[RPM]

Go for a swim, and buy a lotto ticket...


It's your frigin lucky day.....

[Bobcat]

I am keeping my boating experiences to old miami vice episodes until 2010 .

[MacGyver]

Bob, You dodged a bullet today. Glad you made it through unharmed.

[Tony]

About 4 years ago my dad bought a 25 Wellcraft near Tampa and hauled it down to Sunshine Key. 2 days later I get down there and we spend the day fishing on the reef. We get back into the marina and I go down to the cabin and the gas smell almost knocks my head off. We pull the hatches up and the fuel level in the bilge is almost up to the batterey posts mind you we had just returned from the reef in moderate seas. We pulled the boat, drained bucket after bucket of fuel from the bilge, removed the tank and a screw head had wedged itself into a corner of the fuel tank cavity and worn a hole in the tank. We had a guy in Marathon weld the spot and stuffed the tank back in the boat.

[Magic Medicine]

Wow that is crazy, glad everything went well and you made it back to the dock

[BUIZILLA]

friend of mine just had this happen in a newer 20 Mako, he was following it on a trailer in the upper keys when the bilge pump kicked on and sprayed fuel all over the car next to it on the highway... talk about freaked out.... probably pumped out 35 gallons before he could get it pulled over and shut off the battery switch... we drained another 28 gallons when he got home... the tank corroded from underneath due to bilge water getting around the foam and saturating it, pi$$ poor construction methods...

[rbhudelson]

go for a swim, and buy a lotto ticket...


It's your frigin lucky day.....

+1

[MarylandMark]

buy a lotto ticket...

+1 and remember me if WE hit