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Time to fix my boat.
Finally I am tired of fishing and tired of eating fish...yea it wont last long!
There is a brace from the transom to the bottom of the boat. (Cast Aluminum)
Well one day my wife and I were on a motor boat ride and I seen a big red something floating..
I thought... That's awful big for a trotline float.... I have to check this out and see what they have going on.
Well when I got to it, it was Fairly new gas can Bingo! Good find! ( I always find stuff)
So when I picked it up there was something heavy attached to it.
It was a whole damn boat and motor!
BINGO! even better!!
I tied up to it gona get it to the bank,
Boggiein on across the lake, the dang boat snagged a stump and POP!
It broke that brace. So I welded it and it broke again, and again, and again, this has been going on for a couple of years. So I took it to Johns welding shop ( big mistake will explain shortly) they said the wood in the transom was rotten. $250 to replace it, I said have at it.
I had just painted my boat and installed new carpet.
When I returned to get my boat it looked like Crap!
I am a very experienced welder, you name it and I can weld it beautifully.
I have to weld aluminum at work and I can't leave my boat there for several days for extensive repairs or I would have done it my self. I told them it looks like ****!
Welds were crappy, looked like owl **** on a hoe handle!
They hit my carpet several times with the grinder ( big cuts).
Needles to say I did not pay them, they should have paid me!
But it seemed strong!
Ok so I fished all spring, tried to bend that boat in half around corners and couldn't break the brace! Good deal, until me and my buddy felt we needed to see how far up palarm creek we could make it. Between jumping logs and getting hung in vines and weeds I broke it again.
So now I am going to build one out of steel angle and bolt it on!
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ROFLMAO!!!! Dang Joe!! Exacty how fast was you pulling the sunk boat when it snagged that stump? It sounds to me you like you need a battle ship to put up with your style of boating. Glad you got her patched up.
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All of that work will give a man an appetite every time. I'm glad to hear that you got your boat fixed and your desire to fish back.
The Lord is good. His mercy and love endures forever.
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didn't take you very long!!! Did you make it to the bank with the boat?? Find the owner??
"Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn." - Chuck Clark :D
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Nope tied it to a cypress, someone else found it.Originally Posted by 501mooney87
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John's replace a skag for me a few years ago. I thought they did a good job. But, the cooler in my stick steer was gone when I picked it up.
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Good story. Sorry for the grin at your expense. I can idetify with those kinds of stories. Thanks for sharing.
aj
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Hopefully it was the owner that found it and hes not found floating down stream.
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