"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:59:03 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

One son, 17, who only gets in the boat if he's guaranteed to catch fish. I
reminded him last year that if he spent a few hours taking the ABSOLUTELY
FREE boat safety course, he could take his girlfriend out in the boat
without his father. The brilliance of this idea hasn't sunken in yet.

Did you teach him about the "water in the gas line" trick yet?

Takes a couple of hours for it to work it's way out of the system.

In the mean time... :)

.....and only evaporation will work. :-)

Unfortunately, he has legitimate ways of getting stranded. This past summer,
he tossed a life jacket on top of the gas tank. OMC, in its infinite wisdom,
designed the tank so the hose's latch mechanism faces up. Click....the hose
popped out about 1/4". No leakage, and everything looks fine. The motor will
start, but only run for 2 seconds. He did this at Tupper Lake in a stiff
wind, which blew him into some mud. Now, the boat's stuck. Instead of using
the oar like a pole, he tried rowing out. Broke one oar.

Unfortunately, he was with two teenage guys who also couldn't come up with
an exit strategy. Not a girl.