broke my verado

[davetnitro]

spent the last few days on a houseboat at Shasta.. beautiful place, catching

40 fish a day, this is big lake, down 100 ft, and still has 150 feet left.

water lever dropping about a foot a day, i was coming back from a morning session

and driving very close to a place i had gone thru 5 times, and whack all hell

broke loose, the nose cone hit a rock at about 55mph. the boat starting doing

dough nuts... the motor cowling went flying, and i am pretty lucky to be typing

this story, it was pretty hairy.

any way here is what it looks like when you do something like that

 

[byron cooley]

OUCH!!! Glad to hear you made it back in 1 peice. Could have been alot worse. Hope it was insured.

 

[Mark Hofman]

OUCH!!!!

 

[TrepMan]

Holey (literaly!!) lower unit Batman!! WOW, VERY glad you are alive and well, hate to see anyone out of running for a bit, hope your insurance was paid up!!



Trep

 

[William H. (Bill) Barham]

The Horror, THE HORROR!!!!!That's enought to give you a sick stomach!! I'm very glad you and anyone else who was with you is ok though Dave.



Uncle Billy

 

[TOMMY RICH]

That ain't good:unsure:

Hey Billy..."enought" ? Is that kinda' like "my wife dun run oft " ?:lol:

 

[Bill McElroy]

That bites!!:angry:.:blink:...Isn't insurance a beautiful thang?!

 

[davetnitro]

insurance up to date, time to make them pay! the hard part

is going to be not having the tub around... was planning to

leave on a second house boating trip tomorrow, that's not happening..

 

[Jim in VA]

YIKES!! Sorry to hear Dave. Better to hear that everyone is okay (whew!). Reminds me not to go running full bore up and down the Potomac near DC.

 

[Brian Ingersoll]

rocks don't seem to have much give to them:blink:



Glad you weren't thrown or hurt

 

[davetnitro]

claim filed, damage to be assessed on wednesday, i did have three g loomis,

that left the boat, i have rod replacement insurance as well

 

[Jon Strong]

That sucks, good thing you are OK.



If you didn't have it already, get a new LU with the low water pick-up in the cone.



JS

 

[pete hanford2]

GLad to hear that you want hurt. thats a nasty hit ouch

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Yikes!! At least you didn't bust the skeg.....:wacko:



Hello State Farm? You're never gonna believe what happened!!



TOXIC

 

[CJ Extrom]

All I can say is what the f........... Glad your ok. Must been a hell of a ride.

At least you hit it with your motor and not the hull. Any damages to the transom?

CJ

 

[davetnitro]

heading for damage assessment on wednesday, NO hull damage at all.

i guess that it was a matter of inches or less

:blink:

 

[Greg Garcia]

Wow! I feel for you. I dont wish that on anyone. Gald you made it safe.