Walk of shame..

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I can assure you, you are not the only person that has done that…lol. We all have our little mishaps from time to time, just like yours. Examples: launching boat with rear straps still on, launching boat with plug out, trying to start motor with kill switch pulled out, taking off with trolling motor still down, etc….Of course I have only READ about these experiences. RIGHT!!!!!

HEHE!!! Definately not alone there choochoo. Took wife and 3 little girls bream fishing. well after a while the smallest one got bores and hit every button on the control panel. turned on bilge, aerator, recirc, lw water fresh water you name it. went to crank it and nothing. figured she ran the battery down or bad gas or plugs. trolled in, charged battery, changed plugs, changed water seperator/fuel filter, checked no fire to plugs, looked down and she had flipped the kill switch just slightly. fired right up. wife asked what it was, i said “bad plugs honey”!!!! then 2 weeks ago, fishing with a buddy, the previous owner either installed drain plugs in the bottom of the livewells or bcb did then so that you can completely drain lw into bottom of boat and out back. after fishing about an hour, buddy says “whats all this water doing in the boat” my dumb @$$ forgot to put the plugs in the bottom. if those are 750 gph pumps then i had obout 200 gallons in that thing. thought it would never quit, so choochoo, definately not alone and thanks for giving us the courage to admit we all do dumb stuff!!!!!!!

I can admit to launching the boat with the rear straps still attached. Trailer floats nicely. Did not take long for me to figure out my problem. We are human and mishaps are going to happen. Laugh and enjoy the times.

You are not alone Choochoo. Not too long after I had my Baycat, I fired up the engine to move from one spot to another, just before it got on plane, the engine died. I tried it two or three times and it died each time. I was fretting about using the troller to run the 7 miles back to the ramp. I was standing on the back deck, looking at the motor (like there was something I could do. ) I went to the console to ponder my dilemma when I looked at the Smartcraft gauge, it said I had 60% fuel. I had forgotten to change the tanks that the guage was reading, the tank I was really operating off of was almost empty. Turned the switch in back and voila…it ran like a charm!