smthng
Jetboaters Commander
- Messages
- 415
- Reaction score
- 242
- Points
- 177
- Location
- Fruit Cove, FL 32259
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2008
- Boat Model
- X
- Boat Length
- 21
Had friends staying in town with us for the weekend, so took them on a tour that I'm comfortable with and have run numerous times. Had a great morning going from St. Augustine (FL) down the intracoastal to Crescent Beach, which is a great place to stop and spend some quality beach time. Got the usual show from dolphins and such, figured out that I have an extended awning and thought I pretty much had all the idiosyncrasies worked out of the new-to-me 212X. We stored all the flip-flops in the cleanout hatch and someone decided that they needed thiers to walk to the bathrooms. When I went to put them back later, the latch on the hatch broke off. :S "No big deal" I thought, until one engine wouldn't start.
Due to the numerous issues posted here with the kill switches, I figured out that was the issue without freaking out. Had a guest sit on the hatch and the engine fired right up. So... how to get the hatch to latch when the latch handle it busted? Tried a bunch of stuff including pliers, trying to spin the remnant with pointy things, etc. No dice. Eventually jammed a piece of cardboard (chicken wing box) in the hatch and all was reasonably well.
Wife assumes "We're all gonna die" as soon as anything goes wrong with the boat, so we headed back to port. On the way, there were a few boat wakes we jumped that dislodged my hatch wedge, so we lost that engine a couple times, readjusted and continued on our way. But, there was one giant boat we had to pass that was a cross between a fishing boat and ferry that was throwing a very slow but massive wake. I tried to get over that thing three times and stalled out each time as we came down. Finally had a guest just sit back there and "hang on"... worked like a charm.![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
Bought a new latch at West Marine for ridiculous money this morning, will replace all the others from online stores as I get a chance. This helped me figure out that my port switch is way too touchy and needs to be replaced (no more adjustment left in the threads and the rubber "boot" is cracked), so I'll be doing both of those as well.
Note the bird about to steal my unsuspecting wife's chicken wing.![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
Due to the numerous issues posted here with the kill switches, I figured out that was the issue without freaking out. Had a guest sit on the hatch and the engine fired right up. So... how to get the hatch to latch when the latch handle it busted? Tried a bunch of stuff including pliers, trying to spin the remnant with pointy things, etc. No dice. Eventually jammed a piece of cardboard (chicken wing box) in the hatch and all was reasonably well.
Wife assumes "We're all gonna die" as soon as anything goes wrong with the boat, so we headed back to port. On the way, there were a few boat wakes we jumped that dislodged my hatch wedge, so we lost that engine a couple times, readjusted and continued on our way. But, there was one giant boat we had to pass that was a cross between a fishing boat and ferry that was throwing a very slow but massive wake. I tried to get over that thing three times and stalled out each time as we came down. Finally had a guest just sit back there and "hang on"... worked like a charm.
![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
Bought a new latch at West Marine for ridiculous money this morning, will replace all the others from online stores as I get a chance. This helped me figure out that my port switch is way too touchy and needs to be replaced (no more adjustment left in the threads and the rubber "boot" is cracked), so I'll be doing both of those as well.
![cQnu5fq.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/cQnu5fq.jpg)
![lAgv6FS.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/lAgv6FS.jpg)
Note the bird about to steal my unsuspecting wife's chicken wing.
![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)