Tropical Storm Barry

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by dеiтайожни

I decided to take the boat out anyways. Not the best time to learn how to launch a boat but fun nonetheless. I stayed close to shore as I didn't want to swim far if it broke down... found out later that was a manatee zone, luckily I had no registration on it so no one could report me. It was really choppy... Can't wait for my lift to get fixed at my dock so no more of that launching nonsense.

Launching the boat can be learned easily.

For me, it's remembering to put the drain plug back on before I launch.

I remember being half way across the lake when I found that it was getting hard to plane the boat and I was losing speed. I looked back and my back end was almost underwater.

I killed the engine, grabbed the drain plug and dove into the water to put it back in. The bilge pump handled the rest after 10 minutes or so.


I've dove into the water with the drain plug.........Twice.