My first boat had a piece of conduit over the tiller arm so I could sit in the middle too. Got a few extra mph out of her with the 5hp Sears.

I once used a purple magic marker to put the letters on my boat. Had to go the lake right now! Couldn't take 5 minutes to go into Wal*Mart and buy some.

melted a shift cable.

madea my buddy jump in the engine bay and i yelled at him when it was time to shift while docking

Was his name Jerry by chance?

i only wish!

Had a small boat with a lot of pin holes in the bottom. I rigged the plug so I could pull it from the inside. Everytime I stopped to fish, I put the plug in. Everytime I got on plane, I pulled the plug out and drained the water.

Always wanted a gokart. My parents told me if I could build one and buy everything myself, OK. By the end of the day I talked to a kid down the street who had an old frame and 4 bald tires, no brakes. Go that very cheap. Then my neighbor way throwing out a gas powered weed whacker. It wasn't very strong but had a built in clutch. Two days later, I found a chain and sprocket to fit it. I used plywood and 2x4 to mount the motor. Had no 2 stroke oil... mixed motor oil with gas (a little of this, a little of that.) I had to push that thing to get going but on flat ground it got up to about 25 mph!

I was the happiest kid alive. My parents on the other hand knew they were in for a life of H*LL as I never quite got out of the motor phase.

We were on Block Island a few years ago in a 30 Scarab Panther when both bolts on the Port seapump sheared off (motor had been rebuilt recently and looks like crappy grade 2 bolts had been put in). If you've ever been to Block, there isn't much there in the way of parts etc... Ended up borrowing a drill from some nice old Lady in town. Drilled out one of the bolts Had one "easy out" with us which we proceded to snap off in one of the broken bolts. Got the other out using a punch and a hammer. Couldn't find any new bolts on the island, so ended up using a bolt pulled off somewhere else on the motor (oil cooler maybe - can't remember) and ran home to CT with one bolt in the seapump..... A hole beautiful day on Block spent in greasy bildge....but it got us home.

Iowa's finest

When I was about 8 yrs old my cousin and I pulled his olders brothers derby (soap box?) car out of the garage. It was a very cool one. Wooden frame with sheet metal skin over it, painted flames. We would coast it down the hill to their barn, then it would take us half an hour to push it back up the hill, but very worth it. Well one day we crashed, broke off a rear wheel. This was not good. We did not want the older brother to find out. so we put it away, with it kind propped together. This was ok, but we couldn't leave it alone. I don't remeber if it was me or my cousin that developed our next plan of action, but it got us back on the road, and deeper into trouble.
We found a skate board that also belonged to his brother and sat what was left the axle on it. It worked beautiful as long as someone was standing on tha skateboard to keep it straight, wich could get a little tricky. Everthing was good untill we crashed the coaster car into the older brother's 54 chevy that he had just painted. Crunched thefront of his coaster and dented up the passenger door of his car all at the same time. So we did what any kid would do. We ran like hell! Of course everybody knew who did it. We got in more trouble for trying to lie our way out of it than all the damage we caused.