Art Bernard
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- May 4, 2011
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We all know Murphy's law right? Well, for the last 3 days I've been re-wiring, replacing gages, total fuel system work-up, etc... Finally finished yesterday evening and was feeling very proud of myself after a sucessful dry land op test so I figured I'd show off my superb skills to my family by inviting them to come and look at what I'd done. My daughter and her friend asked if they could get in the boat and I smiled and said sure, basking in the glow of sucess I didn't mind. So in they go and they start playing with everything, knobs, switches, the revolving captians chair was a big hit I stood there and watched feeling good about myself UNTILL my daughter starts turning the stearing wheel back and forth and I hear this strange poping noise and than a THUNK as part of the stearing mechanism hits the deck My girl looks at me and says "uhm dad?". At that time it struck me that Murphy had been getting ready to hit me with a major whammy as I had planed on taking the boat out today for a wet test and that thanks to my daughters intervention I was spared being stranded and probibly paying a heafty tow bill. Kids have this remarkable ability to break things, I think they come by it naturally but it occurs to me that turning a kid or two loose in your boat is a good way to find things that are broken, or about to break thus circumventing the deamon murphy. If you don't have any kids, borrow someone else's, most parents won't mind getting them out from underfoot for a bit and the kids will be providing a valuable public service Now, the real moral of this story is to BE THOROUGH when going through your boat checking the mechanicals. I'd had no problems with the stearing so I didn't give it a closer look, Thank god for daughters
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