Adventures in boating and Taylor Made

What a weekend...my truck gets thrown up on by a buzzard on the way to Lake Gaston...what could top that? Lots! I'm tooling along in the 67 Mustang following my dad in his 76 Ski Tique when a moment of shore gazing leads to me being too close to the Tique. I kill the throttle, dad guns the Ski Tique and the "perfect storm" is created. His wake combined with the nose of my boat diving resulted in my boat submarining at 10-15 mph and a huge wall of water coming over the bow and collapsing my new Taylor Made windshield. I immediately kill the engine and check the bilge pump running. The boat fills with water and rolls on its port side...now water is running over the port gunwale. The wife runs back to the back seat to calm the kids (all are fine) and now I have water spilling over the transom. Finally I get everyone still and the boat is righted. I have 8-10" of water ABOVE the deck. It take 45 minutes to an hour to pump the boat out so I have time to check engine and tranny oil...both were fine. When the bilge is under control I decide to give her a whirl...it started right up and drove like nothing ever happened. The starter had been under water but evidently had no lasting effects. I ran the engine long enough to heat everything up and left the motorbox up for drying. We used the boat for the following two days without as much as a sputter. This will be my arguement FOR flotation foam and totalling sealing the deck to the gunwale (and to think I had just yelled at the wife for spilling suntan lotion on the carpet).

I called Taylor Made and explained the demise of the windshield and they stated they would have one shipped by the end of next week at no charge. These are people I will gladly advertise for!

On a positive note...I met Waterdog and his wife in their stunning Ski Tique. Way cool folks in a way cool boat. I look forward to catching up with them at Wobble Island. Any Gaston folks should meet us there. What a weekend!

Wholly crap batman !!! Glad everyone's OK is right !!! One word of advise, take the starter out, dry it, grease it and re-install.. My Ski Tigue's starter is fried due to water failure from a leaking manifold riser.. Just a suggestion..

Good to see the old CC made it through !!! My wife would have that boat sold as fast as we had it back on the trailer hahahaha

Moj'

Already did the foam...US Composites 2 lb density...and filled the bow with it. It was the first time the wife and kids had been in the boat since total rebuild.