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who has been working on there boat and took off the wrong part, or destroyed something trying to get to another. i was changing the indicator cable, the port side was good the sb side bad, pulled it out changed it, then thought i was cutting the old one . actually cut the other side :mad: i was pissed. stopped then started helping my son work on his truck.

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Hope your sons truck is ok!! :eek: :D

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My stupid mistake is wasting my time dumping more money in a 272 BAJA when i should have just bought a 38 ft boat with twins for the amnt of $ spent!!!! But hey,it's like a addiction! Smitty

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not living in florida....

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Hooking up with Masher :D

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I didnt know you and Masher were like that :eek:

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i'm not sure who would regret hooking up more... masher or jc?

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Left myself wide open for that :D

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:drink:

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Letting JC fix me up with his hotties......

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I can hear that spandex stetching from here!

Looks more like an outdoor Sumo match.

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Looks like "whatever that is" on the right just "popped her cherry"...:D :D

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Biggest mistake I made was buying a performance boat in the first place! I never have any troubles with my fishing boat!

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You have to read the fine print.

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20/10 vision here and I can read pretty well .... they just never mention gas cost, blown up motor cost, blown drive rebuild cost, blown drive (again) replacement cost, new upholstry cost, GPS cost, trailer brake replacement cost, etc, etc, etc....

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getting married?? Can't believe nobody posted that.

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i disconnected my trailer and boat from the hitch in a parking lot that had a slight grade without blocking the tires.

Then I watched the trailer and boat roll across the parking lot and down the hill. :eek: It stopped when the trailer jack dug up to the frame in the dirt.

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Was working on my boat in the driveway with the hose connected. Went in the house for a few minutes and shut off the hose. Came back out and started up the boat again,only forgot to turn the water back on..Well you know the rest of the story !! :mad:

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That's because THAT would be considered a stupid mistake! :D JK!!

~Cat

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my doctor 10 years ago told me to get a hobby, that i worked to much. I purchased a boat, 12th boat later, all my money, ect ect ect i am getting a new doctor :D

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Crossing oil lines to the remote oil filter will ruin your day pretty quick!

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I did the same thing in my driveway,, except I thought I knew better by being careful and hooking the winch rope up to the bumper of the truck,,, stupid me forgot to lock the winch,, boat took of down the driveway with the winch handle spinning a million miles an hour,, thought about trying to grab it,, probably would have snapped my hand like tooth pick,, anyway, got to the end of the rope and I couldn't believe my eyes when that little tiny clamp on the side of the winch that holds the end of the rope or cable held and stopped the boat in it's tracks,,, boat was headed straight for a telephone pole in the middle of the yard.. It yanked the truck about 2 feet down the drive way.. :eek: :eek:

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man thats what you call big blocks :evilb:

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Does hopping off the trailer with my finger hung under a cleat qualify?

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Oh, I thought you were trying to make animal shadows????

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DOH :eek: :eek:

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lmao :D

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Put a gil offshore battery box in. Set the drill depth for the inside holes but for "some reason" drilled the outside first. Thought all was well. Got about 10 miles and the boat did'nt seem to be handling right. I slowed down and water was shooting out like a fire hose. Turned around and got the boat back on the lift and would then lower it - could'nt figure out where the leak was. My brain just could'nt compute that I drilled a hole through the hull. :D

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I like the more detailed story better :evilb:

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I was helping a friend put speakers in his boat, I though we would use a zip-tie to hold the wires up under the side of his boat. I put a nice screw hole through the side.......Didn't realize how thin it was there. :eek:

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That had to have ruined your night and the next couple days.

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Me too but I have to use the condensed version at work.

If I was woogie, I would want to shoot myself. :D

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Sure did! could have used up a roll of Swipes! :D Once you drill a hole through your hull your screwed for awhile . Couple weeks after that I had a brand new snap-on toolbox full of brand new snap-ons - all the goodies - sitting on the dock while I was working on the boat. Went to lower the lift and since I was on the other side of the boat there was no possible way I could have known the lift was going to catch it on the way down. All I heard was the KA-SPLOOSH and I knew it was'nt a Walleye.

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All I can think of is Eric Clapton's line:

If it wasn't for real bad luck, I wouldn't have
No luck at all.....

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Woogie - Oh S%@#! :eek:
Just because you were willing to share this with the rest of us, I am sending you Swipes. Just the fact that you still boat after these two things happening to you amazes me. I don't think I could have controlled myself in that situation.
Check you PM's.

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Unhooked trailer, pulled truck down the hill. Heard a strange sound (trailer tongue grinding on pavement) was promptly rear ended by my own trailer. winch put a nice hole in my tail gate. Tongue was locked under rear axle. had to jack up truck. then tore off a brake line trying to get the trailer separated from truck. this turned a 20 min errand into an all day fiasco. not counting the repair bill on the truck.

Steve Hixson

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umm Don't use fuel hose for oil lines :eek: They get really big then split :eek:

1st lap around the lake.... " whats that smell.....umm just the motor"
2nd lap... " whats that smell..... umm smells like oil"
3rd lap.... " man what stinks!!"

starting to lose oil pressure...... Open the hatch and looks like the exxon valdez crashed in the bilge.. :eek: :eek:


thing I learned... don't use fuel line.... use the clear white lined reinforced hose from the hardware... ( will last the weekend till you have time to fix it) :D I ended up buying some bad ass hose from a hydraulic place..

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used to live on a very steep hill (I wore cleats to cut the grass) I had a U-joint going bad and climbed under the truck to change it one afternoon. It was stuck so I started tapping on it with a hammer to knock it out.....as soon as it popped out the light bulb went off in my head. The truck is now in neutral and starting to roll!!!!! right down my driveway towards the house across the street.
I jumped out from under the truck and luckily the passenger door was open. Dove in head first and held the brake pedal with both hands. Stopped at the bottom of the driveway and about chit my pants.

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I was under the impression that you always broke perfectly good parts trying to fix the one broken one. The only question became how many and how expensive were they (normally the more expensive perfectly good part would be first to suffer). The real issue is that you are prepared to do the work with a few new parts for items in the area where you will be working, when you break something that causes you to have stop what you were doing and then place an order for a part no-one has locally, then wait for it to not arrive until many weeks later, being lost in shipment a couple of times. And then.......

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now THATS some funny chit :D :D :D