So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

[Boomyal]

...the old 5.0 boat motor fired right up. I turned on the water, shot a little gas down the Holley 4bbl and hit the key. It lit right off and ran at a smooth high idle. I was ready for the worst.

Last summer was so anemic that I never got the boat out. Now with a heat wave starting up (95? in the PNW is a heat wave) I'll be taking the boat out on the mighty Columbia with all the other idiots, probably!

 

[coastalrichard]

Re: So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

We'll need pics, Boom, or...er...you know...:facepalm:

 

[robert graham]

Re: So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

...the old 5.0 boat motor fired right up. I turned on the water, shot a little gas down the Holley 4bbl and hit the key. It lit right off and ran at a smooth high idle. I was ready for the worst.

Last summer was so anemic that I never got the boat out. Now with a heat wave starting up (95? in the PNW is a heat wave) I'll be taking the boat out on the mighty Columbia with all the other idiots, probably!

Don't you just love it when stuff works like its supposed to!!!...Enjoy it while you can, because Murphy is always lurking!

 

[Boomyal]

Re: So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

We'll need pics, Boom, or...er...you know...:facepalm:

Do you want to see them with or without all the mildew spots on the white hull?

 

[nlain]

Re: So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

Before and After the cleaning, we want to know just how hard you had to work.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

Don't you just love it when stuff works like its supposed to!!!...Enjoy it while you can, because Murphy is always lurking!

That is all too true robt.

btw, my daughter spent a year at Bob Jones a few years back. I went back to visit her over the Thanksgiving holiday. It was freezing cold so we took a drive down to Hilton Head to warm up. It was so unseasonably cold down there that the visitors were half of normal for that time of year. It was sure a gorgeous place, though. I hadn't seen such splendor since I left the Newport CA area.

We also took a little trip up to NC to see the Battle of Cowpens site. Although I knew Cowpens to be a Revolutionary War battle site, I never new the story of it. It made you proud to see how the Americans whipped the British along with their meanest and most brutal General.

A great visit, it was, to your neck of the woods.

Oh, and if you ever get down to Hilton Head, be sure to have a dinner at Marley's, if it is still there.

edit: I just googled it. It is still there. A great place with great atmosphere.

http://marleyshhi.com/

 

[Boomyal]

Re: So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

Before and After the cleaning, we want to know just how hard you had to work.

It's just too hot out to be scrubbing hulls. I would do it in the water except that I have to keep my injured leg out of the water. I'll have a neighbor help me launch the boat, though.

 

[nlain]

Re: So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

It's just too hot out to be scrubbing hulls. I would do it in the water except that I have to keep my injured leg out of the water. I'll have a neighbor help me launch the boat, though.

Understand that. By the way, when you were in Hilton Head you weren't too far from me. I work just out of Savannah, we are right off the East end of the Airport runway, I live about 30 min South.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

Understand that. By the way, when you were in Hilton Head you weren't too far from me. I work just out of Savannah, we are right off the East end of the Airport runway, I live about 30 min South.

Yeah, we made a quick trip down into Savannah on that trip, as well. I remember all the fireworks stands near the border. I think they were on the SC side. They must not be legal in GA?

 

[nlain]

Re: So Jazzed! After a 1 1/2 year rest....

Yeah, we made a quick trip down into Savannah on that trip, as well. I remember all the fireworks stands near the border. I think they were on the SC side. They must not be legal in GA?

At that time they were not legal, some are now legal in Ga but not all.