03-29-2019, 07:32 PM
Here’s one of mine...... I always wanted to go up the river by roundabout, so we did one year. Found a fisherman to take us up to the bridge past old palm preserve.
We decided to turn around there, put motor in reverse and all I see is motor lifting off transom and swoosh it’s gone. Straight to bottom. Fisherman never secured it properly.
He jumped in and put rope around it. We all tugged on it til it surfaced. Attached back onto boat. We all knew what needed to be done, spark plugs should come out, pull on starter rope to get water out of pistons. Guess what.....no spark plug wrench. He found piece of metal and used something as hammer and remarkably got them out. We all took turns pulling starter rope til no more water came out. I dried plugs with my shorts and a lighter. Replaced plugs and we all took turns pulling on it for a half hour. Then sputter, sputter and eventually vroom. She started up back to Negril. I promised fisherman I would never tell story with his name attached. But every time I see him we have a good chuckle.
We decided to turn around there, put motor in reverse and all I see is motor lifting off transom and swoosh it’s gone. Straight to bottom. Fisherman never secured it properly.
He jumped in and put rope around it. We all tugged on it til it surfaced. Attached back onto boat. We all knew what needed to be done, spark plugs should come out, pull on starter rope to get water out of pistons. Guess what.....no spark plug wrench. He found piece of metal and used something as hammer and remarkably got them out. We all took turns pulling starter rope til no more water came out. I dried plugs with my shorts and a lighter. Replaced plugs and we all took turns pulling on it for a half hour. Then sputter, sputter and eventually vroom. She started up back to Negril. I promised fisherman I would never tell story with his name attached. But every time I see him we have a good chuckle.