We had a close unexpected encounter with one a few weeks ago. Had to throttle way down and my old man had one foot on the teak ski locker, he went down like a sack of potatoes. Thank God the pass through to the bow has cushion on both sides. Could have been really nasty.
Wow @dvx216 that had to be one heck of a hit.
That area can get so congested. Any you’re dead on with people not always paying attention.
Glad everyone one is safe.
Is this set up for your private backyard ski lake?
In my experience those anchors are as good at sand filled milk jugs I use to tie our kids floats to on vacation.
Can you swap that muck killer out for something with some bite to it?
Having pulled anchors up since my pre teen years, I get...
Yea it is carbed. Idle seems high as our “no wake” speed has us cruising past other boats in the river.
Doesn’t seems to have any backfiring or “sneezing”. Carb was just cleaned and plugs are new. Is there any easy check to determine if it’s lean?
Have had the boat on out Lake Erie 5 times now.
Other than our first voyage where we discovered the coil was shot and got towed back, the 5.7 Merc has run great.
Temp dead on at 170. Easily cruising at 25-30.
Have some things left to do still.
But my biggest issue is vapor lock at this...