msavold
Jetboaters Admiral
- Messages
- 768
- Reaction score
- 1,399
- Points
- 252
- Location
- Columbia, MD
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2012
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 24
So, we set off for a boat ride and dinner m heading south to Ocean City. Found crappy weather so decided to turn back north and explore an area where we'd not been before. (And here I keep thinking about how someone pointed out to me when I was learning to fly that accident sequences often come in three steps...)
We decided to explore a long reach at the north end of Assawoman Bay that goes back to some houses (with boat slips) about 4 or 5 miles west of where we were. Boating waters around here can get stupidly shallow very fast but, hey, there are boat slips there so it must be ok, right? (Mistake [HASH=131]#1)[/HASH]
The stupid stock depth gauge is stuck on 2.3' depth. It's done that before. Shutting the power off and resetting it always gets it to wake up. I'll do that when we stop for dinner. (Mistake [HASH=132]#2)[/HASH].
I give my wife my iPad with the local chart on it but she has her distance contacts in and can't read it. Oh, well, there are boats upstream right? (Back to Mistake [HASH=131]#1)[/HASH]
The channel is getting narrower - still about 300', mind you - and I'm getting concerned.
So I decide to slow down (mistake [HASH=3964]#3![/HASH]) and slow down to turn around.
Boat comes off plane and settles onto the silt below - but not until after ingesting a crap ton of bottom and getting an overtemp warning. I killed the engines maybe 5 or 10 seconds in (idiot's first reaction was to try to speed up and get back on plane... why, I have NO idea.)
The bottom around here is an extremely fine silt - it's smoother than rubbing compund, but silt nonetheless. - and quite deep. Getting out and shoving the boat to deeper water was not possible since you just sink standing in it, let alone get enough resistance to push or pull. We knew tide was coming in so we waited about half an hour and she floated again. Yeah, it was that close.
With fingers crossed, I started the engines up. Silt came out of the pee holes. Shit. No more than a couple of seconds' worth and followed by clear water but silt nonetheless.
Ran for about 10 minutes, heading back towards home, and stopped for dinner. Boat ran flawlessly, pee holes were clear, no temperature issues. After dinner, started right up and ran flawlessly again. Sigh.
Got home when it was dark, gave it an extra long flush, both with fresh water and Salt Away. Going down to check it out now - starting with the oil and intake filters.
What would you check/tear down, if anything?
PS: there may be some boats upstream but I suspect they're like all the outboards around here with polished, shiny skegs and propellers! Or they know better than I did and only go out at high tide!
We decided to explore a long reach at the north end of Assawoman Bay that goes back to some houses (with boat slips) about 4 or 5 miles west of where we were. Boating waters around here can get stupidly shallow very fast but, hey, there are boat slips there so it must be ok, right? (Mistake [HASH=131]#1)[/HASH]
The stupid stock depth gauge is stuck on 2.3' depth. It's done that before. Shutting the power off and resetting it always gets it to wake up. I'll do that when we stop for dinner. (Mistake [HASH=132]#2)[/HASH].
I give my wife my iPad with the local chart on it but she has her distance contacts in and can't read it. Oh, well, there are boats upstream right? (Back to Mistake [HASH=131]#1)[/HASH]
The channel is getting narrower - still about 300', mind you - and I'm getting concerned.
So I decide to slow down (mistake [HASH=3964]#3![/HASH]) and slow down to turn around.
Boat comes off plane and settles onto the silt below - but not until after ingesting a crap ton of bottom and getting an overtemp warning. I killed the engines maybe 5 or 10 seconds in (idiot's first reaction was to try to speed up and get back on plane... why, I have NO idea.)
The bottom around here is an extremely fine silt - it's smoother than rubbing compund, but silt nonetheless. - and quite deep. Getting out and shoving the boat to deeper water was not possible since you just sink standing in it, let alone get enough resistance to push or pull. We knew tide was coming in so we waited about half an hour and she floated again. Yeah, it was that close.
With fingers crossed, I started the engines up. Silt came out of the pee holes. Shit. No more than a couple of seconds' worth and followed by clear water but silt nonetheless.
Ran for about 10 minutes, heading back towards home, and stopped for dinner. Boat ran flawlessly, pee holes were clear, no temperature issues. After dinner, started right up and ran flawlessly again. Sigh.
Got home when it was dark, gave it an extra long flush, both with fresh water and Salt Away. Going down to check it out now - starting with the oil and intake filters.
What would you check/tear down, if anything?
PS: there may be some boats upstream but I suspect they're like all the outboards around here with polished, shiny skegs and propellers! Or they know better than I did and only go out at high tide!
