Back from the cabin once more, and I am none to happy about it this time. When we left from our glorious 13 days in paradise, it was 75 & sunny & no humidity & a light breeze & big white puffy clouds in a beautiful bluer than blue sky. Who can beat THAT? We had 1 rainy day. We did have rain at night, but that's no biggie. The only thing that made coming home OK was knowing that we'd only be home for 9 days to return on day 10 for another week! That will be our 6th week this summer. For me this is a MAGIC number as it was my personal goal to spend 1/2 the summer at the cabin - and we're actually gonna make it! WAHOO!
Boat motors - whatdayado
Out on the lake 1 fine evening were my Mom, H's Mom with myself driving. We're 10 miles from the cabin and decide to turn around to get back before it's dark. We turn around and viola, H's Mom sees LIGHTNING. Lovely. So I speed up like any sane adult would do to try to really high-tail it back. All to no avail. Mr. boat motor was not going to cooperate. We ran for a minute and BEEP, red light & automatic idle. What the $#&*(#$ is THAT???? (This happened several times.) Running through my mind is that not only will we all be hit by lightening & killed, but my 3 kids won't have ANY of their female role models left in their life because they were all dumb and got dead out in the middle of a lake during a thunderstorm. Long story short, we made it back without being struck by lightning. However, we did happen to see TONS of fishing boats out happily fishing away during this thunderstorm - how smart are they anyway? We at least had an excuse. (Sucky motor!)
Back at the cabin I then grabbed Dad's motor manual to find the problem. I love these how-to-fix-it books...NOT. I did happen to get the the correct chapter on my 1st try - YEA ME! But since I didn't know exactly which model the motor was, I had to read practically the same things 5 & 6 times over until I narrowed down which was ours. OK, so I find 'the one'. Solution - the actual problem could be 1 of 11 things...literally.
Next - call Dad and chew him out because, of course, it is HIS fault. Hehehehe. Next day he arrives and takes said boat out for a spin - you know how these things go, machinery never makes mistakes while the fix-it person is around. I bet Mom $50 that it wouldn't happen - she should have bet me - it did it twice to him. Now on 1 hand I was absolutely tickled that that was the case. Frankly the night before I don't think he believed there really was an issue - you know - the woman driver thing. Well HA - there WAS - AND it even did it to HIM. But then on the other hand, then we had to narrow down the 11 items it COULD be to get to the 1 it actually WAS. Well, when all was said and done - and here is the kicker - it wasn't ANY of the 11 items listed in the manual. Isn't that always the case??? Gotta love those owner's manuals - who writes those things anyway? Do they READ what they write? I'm just curious if anyone knows...
It's late, I'm tired, and I'll have to catch y'all up w/the rest another day. There's lots to laugh at. And should you wish to hear the entire boat motor 'thing' - give me a call, I can't type it all...OK, I don't wanna type it all.
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Okay Boogie -
Did you ever thinkto go look at the actual motor to get the correct model #????? Hmmmm!LMAO!
GLad you had fun!
By the time we actually made it back to the cabin, it was dark out & raining & lightning. You really wanna spend more time in THAT? PLUS, the actual model number is inside the motor cover which cannot be removed by 1 person because it is too heavy. And to top that one off, it is written on the back of the motor facing the lake so I would have had to be a contortionist to read the darn thing. Bottom line - much easier to read through 5-6 descriptions to narrow down the options.
Boat Motor side note:
These items are DEFINITELY NOT engineered by women. I helped Dad change the oil this spring in the upper & lower unit prior to launch. CRAZY ways to do things and SUPER messy to top it off - a woman would never do such things.
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