My dad and i should have realized we should not be ones to own a boat. Ever since we bought our boat we have had nothing but adventures. My dad is 40 and he owned boats before and I, at the time, was 19 so i of course knew everything. But in acctuality we are both pretty ignorant. The day started off at 5am, we go to get the boat from our storage that doesn't open till 7, then realize we left the hitch insert at home, so we then go and wait for Wal-mart to open at 830. Finally get the trailer hooked up and get out of the storage facility only to have the trailer jump off the hitch and into the back of my pretty new truck. Once we get it into the water at a very heavily visited widlife park (holiday park, for those of you in S. FL) we struggle for 2 in a half hours to get this boat started. We have the motor cover off, taking crap apart, jumping the starter battery with our 24-volt trolling system, pumping the gas bulb, playing with the choke, it would just turn over but not start. We are already embarrassed as hell, But to top it all off, a more experienced boater (who ha been watchin this fiasco for a long while) came over and told us to push the key in and turn, and sure enough the darn thing started up. It took us another 15 minutes to get everything put back right that we had taken apart.<br /><br />That is just one of the countless things we've screwed up. You can only imagine what happened when us two rented a 53' houseboat for a week. <br /><br />We've gotten the hang of things now and all is good.