On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:14:41 -0400, I am Tosk
wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:30:06 -0400, I am Tosk
wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:34:14 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:

On Oct 24, 8:20*am, John H wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:14:26 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:
On Oct 24, 7:57*am, "Paul@BYC" wrote:

A discussion about "chain rodes rip out cleats" would be on topic and
possibly very funny!

Probably , that is as long as it's someone else's boat.

Good mornin', Tim.

I'm off to get my boat. Sandy and I are going up to the Georgetown Starbucks for
a cup of coffee.

Have a spectacular day!
--
John H

All decisions are the result of binary thinking.


Have fun, John.!

Well, this is what I get for a fast decision to go boating. Usually I pick the
boat up the night before and check the battery, etc. Today I just hooked up the
boat, drove to the ramp north of the airport, launched the boat, and hit the
starter.....nothing. ****!!!

So, I'm back home, battery is on the charger, and we're waiting for it to get
charged. Hell, even the hot shot didn't have enough juice to crank
the engine.

Oh well, live and learn - not to take shortcuts.

I have had a few of those hot shot things, cheap and expensive, none of
which has ever started anything for me...

This wasn't a cheap one, that's for sure. I should have plugged it in last
night. But, the gauge said it was 'ready'. Maybe it was ready for a battery at
75%, but not mine!

Like I said, I have had good ones too, they just aren't worth it. Now I
have twenty foot jumper cables, good soft ones. But of course they still
might not reach the boat. But did you consider taking the battery out of
the tow vehicle and jumping the boat?

I carry jumpers and asked a guy in a new bass boat to give me a jump. He didn't
know if he could, 'cause he didn't know where the battery was. Well, we found
the battery and hooked up the cables. I then asked him to rev the engine up a
little. He said he couldn't because the boat would start going forward. So I
showed him how to take it out of gear and rev the engine. (At that point he said
he should read the book!)

Anyway, even with the cables connected and the engine at about 1500 rpm, mine
would still not turn over. I'm tellin' ya, my battery was dead. That's D-E-A-D!
--
John H

All decisions are the result of binary thinking.