Customer comes into the shop and asks about repowering his 16 foot boat. It has a mercruiser 120 hp.. I talk him into a new complete 140 hp mercruiser. The boat shows up and the boats twenty years old but perfect. This boat is a perfect boat to repower with new steam. Install the new mercruiser and guage package. Water test the boat and prop it with the new engine. It runs great and looks great. The customer picks up the boat and told me he will take it to the lake this weekend. He comes to the shop monday morning and says the boat won't pull his son up on skies. I told him to drop off the boat and I would check it out. It shows up and I check the prop for maybe a bad hub I know the boat ran great. The hub check out ok. I then water tested the boat again. It ran perfect. He picked up the boat and took it back to the lake the next weekend. He came back again the following monday. I told him I would go to the lake where the boat was this sunday. I drove two hours to his lake. I showed up at his dock. The boat was tied up to the dock with his wife in the back seat. Mom called Jr. to come to the boat. They wanted to show me the problem when they TRIED to pull Jr. on the water skies. The problems were 1. Mom weigh in at 500lbs. 2. Jr weigh in at least 450lbs. 3. the boat is only 16 feet. 4. Dad weigh in a 100lbs wet. 5. How was jr. born. 6. That poor Mercruiser couldnt pull Jr. up on those skies ever. 7. How do you tell the father we need to shift some weigh about 500lbs from the stern of the boat. This a true story and I had all I could do to hold a straight face. I really though one of my friends was making this all up. I was looking for the camers. They were serious about pulling Jr. on skies. A 350TBI couldn't have pulled Jr. and mom together.
