Yep, we're clearly risk takers!Originally Posted by shortthenlong
Transom was a different story though!
Yep, we're clearly risk takers!
Transom was a different story though!
Don't stop with the story there. Fill us in, what happened to the transom?
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Nothing bad happened while we were away except the evening I was doing my best impression of a power winch and popped the bow eyelet off the cruisy. Fortunately it was all the way on the trailer and didn't roll back into the gutter. The transom survived until CT got the boat home and decided to go looking for trouble...
Yep, a bow eye snapping sounds a lot like a gunshot and the roofrack on the car makes a very loud noise when hit by the shrapnel!
Bow eye and transom were both the same story. Just age related fatigue. Moral of the story is what looks like a few stress cracks on the outside can be terminal mush on the inside. Nothing a rebuild didn't fix.
And staying on track, the Ficht at 16 years old did two more offshore runs in the past week. Keep them maintained and use them. Sitting around and the subsequent corrosion is what kills motors.
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