dmtalon
Petty Officer 3rd Class
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- Jun 29, 2012
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Spent the whole day on Brookville Lake (Indiana) Yesterday and had a ball. ~4:45 we were heading back towards the ramp and noticed everyone headed our way. Looking ahead we see it's POURING RAIN, so we turn around and head north to try and avoid it.
got above it, and floated a bit (boat off) About 10-15m later I needed to start it because we were driving to close to shore, and it wouldn't start! It tried to turn over about 1/4 turn and then just click click click...
Flagged down some help, got a jump (guy had one of those portable battery jumpers), made it about half way back before we were dead in the water again. We looked in the engine compartment and at the battery wires etc.. Nothing obviously wrong. I did find out that the nylon strap holding the battery was NOT working at all. You pull it tight and you can run your finger/hand behind it and loosen it easily. So the battery was bouncing around a lot yesterday I guess. I assumed we fried the battery from bouncing or similar.
Luckily we found another helper to tow us the rest of the way back to the ramp. Got it loaded. Luckily the trim was up enough we could get up to the parking lot. There I used my jumper cables and the people we were out with's car to power the boat and get the motor up for towing.
Got home, pulled the battery, put it on the battery tender overnight and was planning to have it load tested. I went ahead and called the dealer since the boat isn't a year old yet. No expectation that they would be able to squeeze me in this week (We are leaving for VA Friday). Service manager said "Get the boat here ASAP and we'll get her fixed" So I took an early lunch, rushed home and brought it in. He load tested the battery right there for me since it was out and it is fine.
He said my description of what happened sounds like a bad/loose connection. So they have the boat since about noon today. Stressing a bit over the timing.
Just for FYI/Symptoms after we got jumped.
Once we got the boat running again, if I tried to use the trim, the gauges would stop working and the alarm would go off. Eventually the alarm was going off about ever minute or so. Using the trim "reset" it and we could keep going. Whenever the alarm was going off, the boat was limping. After 5 minutes of that it got bad enough that we couldn't continue. That's when we started flagging down for a tow. The tachometer was wacky the whole time we were running after the jump.
I'll update once I find out whats up.
got above it, and floated a bit (boat off) About 10-15m later I needed to start it because we were driving to close to shore, and it wouldn't start! It tried to turn over about 1/4 turn and then just click click click...
Flagged down some help, got a jump (guy had one of those portable battery jumpers), made it about half way back before we were dead in the water again. We looked in the engine compartment and at the battery wires etc.. Nothing obviously wrong. I did find out that the nylon strap holding the battery was NOT working at all. You pull it tight and you can run your finger/hand behind it and loosen it easily. So the battery was bouncing around a lot yesterday I guess. I assumed we fried the battery from bouncing or similar.
Luckily we found another helper to tow us the rest of the way back to the ramp. Got it loaded. Luckily the trim was up enough we could get up to the parking lot. There I used my jumper cables and the people we were out with's car to power the boat and get the motor up for towing.
Got home, pulled the battery, put it on the battery tender overnight and was planning to have it load tested. I went ahead and called the dealer since the boat isn't a year old yet. No expectation that they would be able to squeeze me in this week (We are leaving for VA Friday). Service manager said "Get the boat here ASAP and we'll get her fixed" So I took an early lunch, rushed home and brought it in. He load tested the battery right there for me since it was out and it is fine.
He said my description of what happened sounds like a bad/loose connection. So they have the boat since about noon today. Stressing a bit over the timing.
Just for FYI/Symptoms after we got jumped.
Once we got the boat running again, if I tried to use the trim, the gauges would stop working and the alarm would go off. Eventually the alarm was going off about ever minute or so. Using the trim "reset" it and we could keep going. Whenever the alarm was going off, the boat was limping. After 5 minutes of that it got bad enough that we couldn't continue. That's when we started flagging down for a tow. The tachometer was wacky the whole time we were running after the jump.
I'll update once I find out whats up.
