Check fluids....lol

Did that smart asss....lol

I had it on the computer and wasn't getting any codes so thats a good start I gess....

It's not just young people it's hard for most people, If you can afford to boat consider yourself lucky.

65k boat loan= 750 month, 1600 year ins, 6000 fuel annually, 2000 maintenance, 4000 slip.
Not a lot of people can toss 24000 a year on boating.


I could by a brand new Harley every year for the cost of boating.

Ain't that the truth. But then every year i think about selling the bike to get a newer, bigger boat. Sheeesh, the "problems" we have!

Again, reading more and more of these posts... I can relate to alot or at least have grown up and with alot of the "game changers" for the younger generations. Being just 30, I grew up when the great NES (Ninetendo Entertainment System) took childhoods everywhere by storm. I remember asking for one for Christmas and in 1990 I got it. At a whopping 6 years old. I still have it to this day, still bust it out from time to time... (on a side note, it just really sucks balls that you cannot play duck hunt on a nice led big screen!!!).. since then many game systems came out, I played them at my friends houses but I never had to urge or need for another one. I would have rather played in the rain.... As I got a little older I did buy as PS2 just to play grand theft auto vice city... still the only game I own... I built my first engine when I was 14 years old for my buddy's 79' F100 truck. (400M engine). The idea of taking a bunch of pieces of metal and actually seeing a running, usable result was more satisfying than say, legos or a puzzle. I stuck with the auto stuff and stayed away from the electronic age. My first 4 cars were all standard shifts and my daily driver still is!

So to get to the point, my interest was in machines, whether it be a bicycle, motorcycle, car, truck, boat etc.... my interest was not with video games... I knew where I wanted to sink my money... friends or acquaintances look at me and say "must be nice" nice to what? Go to the lake with fiends, enjoy the sun, and live life? There is expense but there is expense in other things... $700 phones, $4-500 video game systems with a new $50-60 game every other week... money adds up no matter where you spend it... I probably spend more than alot of my friends do but I worked my ass off to be able to do it... I am not married and have no kids... my mom lives 2000miles away in sunny Arizona and I check in from time to time and make sure that she is taken care of. She is my main responsibility other than myself. My toys would go in a second for her but as of now she is fine, enjoying the freshly retired life and soaking up the sunny Arizona days! I work hard all winter and build a bank account to play in the summer... I don't ask my friends to pay or chip in for fuel... its my toy, its my expense, my close friends that I know have money and boat every weekend with me I might accept a little green from time to time but newbies, friends of friends blah blah blah... I didn't invite them aboard to invade their wallets...

So yes the biggest reasons I can see, being a younger person myself, are the cost of operating and just simply a change in hobbies and interests in the younger generations...

It's almost like the dark side Vs the good side of the force. Here we all are here on our I-phones or lap tops or PC's wasting time on a internet website complaining about kids today on their I-phones, lap tops or PC's wasting time on the internet.

Lol good point

I agree that $ is a big issue with "younger" boaters. But I think there is more. The vid, big screen monitor to play some stupid worthless game, not getting your hands dirty is even more. Getting motivated and learning to see satisfaction of your work is history. Money didn't grow on trees when I got into boating. (Mid 70's) I found a way to support my passion. Now days there is NO passion for anything but sit front of screen. Some one wants to get a 30'+- something boat, they will find a way if they want it bed enough. "X" generation kids don't want anything bed enough. Saddens me.

That there's funny, sad , and true at the same time.