Halfmoon (8/24/2008)

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Your a trouble maker. I know you did more than that during our High School days.

SPECKDECK (8/25/2008)

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Ok, not that big of deal, but a funny story.
I was 17 at my grandparents place on Bear Pt. I kept asking to take the boat out but my dad kept saying "it's not running right so don't take it". ( 15-16ft tri hull POS with a 30hp mariner). Well, as you can imagine, I finally convinced him to let me take it just around the corner to see if some of my buds were home. Took my girlfriend, sister, her friend, my brother, and his friend. Everything is going fine, it's running great as I round Bear pt headed towards the marina. I see that some one is one the pier and start my turn. That's when all hell broke loose... literally broke loose. Next thing I know, I'm holding on to 30 horses pegged at full throttle and something doesn't feel right. I look back and my motor is no longer connected to the boat. So I'm holding on for dear life, thinking, wow this is gonna be a serious ass whuupin. I finally lose the battle. I watch the motor bob up and down about 5 or 6 times and then dead silence.
Luckily I have the situational awareness to throw the anchor quickly. So the water is chest high and absolutely covered in jelly fish. I start walking, thinking I'll find the motor since we only coasted about 100 or so yards. I can't find shi.... and the rest of the crew won't get in the water. Pussies!!. I'm stinging like crazy and my friend shows up in his boat with a bottom finder. I can hardly talk to him because he's still laughing so hard. I could hear his parents laughing all the way on their pier. They didn't know it was me until he came out there.
So, I give up and get a tow home. As we pull up I make everyone sit so my dad can't see the transom. He say's " I told you it was running like crap and you'd break down". I say " No, It ran great, it didn't break down". "What's the problem then he says". Right then we ar at the pier and I move to the side of the boat.....revealing the truth!! He literally dropped his beer can on the pier. My mom drops to the floor laughing.
Long story short, we had to call some friends to come down with their boat to drag a shrimp net. I had to call the conservation office because it was out of season.
We dropped the net the next day and started to pull. Nothing doing..... the boat was going nowhere. I'm like, great we've dropped on a piece of trash right from the get go. I get out and walk the net. Once on the net, I stepped on the motor. All of that and what are the chances that we drop the net on the motor???? By the way, My dad made me drag the bottom with treble hooks the day before.
We drained the motor and filled her back up and it ran better than before!!!
Beating avoided!!!!

I've got some war stories too, but I'll save them for the campfire. I can't type that much!