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I'm smirking right now.... I can't help it....boats spawn love hate relationships... I remmeber a "disagrrement" I had with my first wife... I don't remember the entire context... it had something to do with fishing... but my parting shot to her as i walked out the door ( to go fishing) was " I had a boat a long time before I had you... and I'll have one long after you're gone"... well I still have that same boat.. she' locked up in a psyc ward in California.. that "event" happend close to 20 years ago.... the irony of it is... every mechanical thing on the planet wears out, breaks or makes your life miserable... it's more pronounced with boats because we depend on them to escape from the other things in our lives that break down (including relationships)... one thing I learned many years ago when i first started messing with boats ( somewhere around the tender age of 12).. you need a back up for everything... I run a 18' center console.. have done so with the same boat since 1980... I'm the ONLY one that has ever worked on it. I have two GPS ( one also doubles as a spare fish finder combo) units... a fish finder.. as configured if eithr unit goes down.. I have a spare...I replaced the engine last season... I replaced it with the same exact motor... I have a spare power head "in stock" in 3 hours I can be back on the water... I have a spare lower unit... 3 spare props and a spare trim motor ...I replaced the electric
trolling motor a few years back but rebuilt the original and keep it in the rafters on the garage....I have complete ignition system "in stock" just in case... nothing short of a sinking will keep me off of the water for more than a few days.... obviously, not everyone has the ability or the time ( or space) to keep "stock" for their boats( I'm betting there are plenty here that do)...sometimes even when you do things "by the numbers" things go wrong... most of whats fgoing on with your boat is pretty trivial and fixed fairly easily... not that it's not aggravation..take a deep breath and keep your chin up... better days and weather( I hope) are coming!
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