You know it's a bad day when the skiff you tied up to the riprap flips and your kicker becomes an anchor.
You know it's a REAL bad day when you come back to hop in your skiff and find it up on the lawn of the local hotel with everything strewn about, your kicker dribbling water out of the case and a bunch of guys standing around it.
But the day gets REALLY bad when you discover that two of the guys that fished your skiff out are Coast Guardsmen and they have an 8.5 x 14 inch triplicate form that they need you sign at the bottom.
Poor guy thanked me for pulling it out and letting him keep it on the lawn while he arranged for oars to get him back to his seiner, but I'm not sure if letting him leave it on the lawn was any help. Since a great deal of fishermen (and women) hang out around here, he and his skiff are receiving a great deal of attention. I think he has heard just about every known solution to submersed outboarditis.
Just exactly how do you completely submerse an outboard in a 55 gallon drum of oil and run it at the same time? I think that little piece of advice came from someone about three quarters into a case of Bud.
You know it's a REAL bad day when you come back to hop in your skiff and find it up on the lawn of the local hotel with everything strewn about, your kicker dribbling water out of the case and a bunch of guys standing around it.
But the day gets REALLY bad when you discover that two of the guys that fished your skiff out are Coast Guardsmen and they have an 8.5 x 14 inch triplicate form that they need you sign at the bottom.
Poor guy thanked me for pulling it out and letting him keep it on the lawn while he arranged for oars to get him back to his seiner, but I'm not sure if letting him leave it on the lawn was any help. Since a great deal of fishermen (and women) hang out around here, he and his skiff are receiving a great deal of attention. I think he has heard just about every known solution to submersed outboarditis.
Just exactly how do you completely submerse an outboard in a 55 gallon drum of oil and run it at the same time? I think that little piece of advice came from someone about three quarters into a case of Bud.