Ever had a day like this?

[Blue Raider Bob]

     Went to Center Hill in eastern middle Tennessee yesterday. Beautiful lake but get crowded on weekends. Should have know better but Dwight and A-Jay keep posting mega-smallie pictures that ruin my decision making. Water was high and up in the trees. Fished in the coves and creeks for hours tossing some of everything before I finally got a bite, only to see this huge, beautiful Smallie go airborne and gone! Only caught one little dink the rest of the day when I noticed that not only did I not need my sunglasses anymore, but it was getting downright dark! The wind came up and the thunder started. Well I cranked the trusty Merc and headed for the dock. A couple hundreds yards out of the creek I hit a log and spun my prop hub. At this point I knew I was doomed. At just the right RPM where my prop would grab a little before spinning I could get 2.5 MPH against a solid, gusting wind, whitecapping waves, and rain right in the face. Two hours of this got me back to the dock. Loaded the boat and pulled out to secure. The whiff of beautiful grilling hotdogs greeted me coming from the playground, so I went to investigate. There was a grill full of hotdogs and hamburgers just burning on the coals. The storm must have crashed a party because there was no one in the park at all! Well, was I wrong to grab a couple off the grill? The ones in the middle were burnt to a crisp, but the ones around the edges were just right! 

[Darth-Baiter]

YUP exactly.  i call it "Saturday"  well no free grill grub.

 

it was my friend.  just 100 yards off the ramp, his kayak broke a pedal drive cable.  me being the AWESOME friend that i am grabbed his kayak (he grabbed mine) and i pulled him from cove to cove..for 8 hours.  at the cove he could limp around with the pedal drive and paddle, but on the long hauls.  i was the mule.   i was fine until i got home.  my legs were gassed and my back sore.  i did yoga-like stretches all night and now i feel fine. 

 

This is the equivalent of your spun prop hub for a Hobie Kayak.

 

 

[Bird]

Quite the story and glad you weathered the storm.

If the grill was abandoned then it became fair game and what you didn't eat went to waste.

[Darth-Baiter]

33 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

     Went to Center Hill in eastern middle Tennessee yesterday. Beautiful lake but get crowded on weekends. Should have know better but Dwight and A-Jay keep posting mega-smallie pictures that ruin my decision making. Water was high and up in the trees. Fished in the coves and creeks for hours tossing some of everything before I finally got a bite, only to see this huge, beautiful Smallie go airborne and gone! Only caught one little dink the rest of the day when I noticed that not only did I not need my sunglasses anymore, but it was getting downright dark! The wind came up and the thunder started. Well I cranked the trusty Merc and headed for the dock. A couple hundreds yards out of the creek I hit a log and spun my prop hub. At this point I knew I was doomed. At just the right RPM where my prop would grab a little before spinning I could get 2.5 MPH against a solid, gusting wind, whitecapping waves, and rain right in the face. Two hours of this got me back to the dock. Loaded the boat and pulled out to secure. The whiff of beautiful grilling hotdogs greeted me coming from the playground, so I went to investigate. There was a grill full of hotdogs and hamburgers just burning on the coals. The storm must have crashed a party because there was no one in the park at all! Well, was I wrong to grab a couple off the grill? The ones in the middle were burnt to a crisp, but the ones around the edges were just right! 

whats the lead-time for a repair like this? 

 

my bud is potentially screwed.  Hobie has a 6-month back order on parts.  

[Blue Raider Bob]

1 minute ago, Darth-Baiter said:

whats the lead-time for a repair like this? 

 

my bud is potentially screwed.  Hobie has a 6-month back order on parts.  

Your Buddy owes you! You sacrificed fishing time for him. That's a gift he can never repay. Are you asking me what is the lead time for my repair, or his? Mine is easy. I'm overnighting a new prop so I can fish Wednesday. Its a five minute fix. His would be difficult to tell. I would bring it into my shop and do a temp repair until my parts came in, but then I'm pretty good at fixing things. 

[Darth-Baiter]

Just now, Blue Raider Bob said:

Your Buddy owes you! You sacrificed fishing time for him. That's a gift he can never repay. Are you asking me what is the lead time for my repair, or his? Mine is easy. I'm overnighting a new prop so I can fish Wednesday. Its a five minute fix. His would be difficult to tell. I would bring it into my shop and do a temp repair until my parts came in, but then I'm pretty good at fixing things. 

your repair.  fast!!  awesome!    oh..the prop stripped.  i thought it was the hub that stripped.  my boat nomenclature is non existent.  

 

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

2 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

your repair.  fast!!  awesome!    oh..the prop stripped.  i thought it was the hub that stripped.  my boat nomenclature is non existent.  

 

 

My bad, I called it a prop hub. It's actually the rubber liner that secures the splined shaft to the prop frame. It's toast. My last two trips cost some serious money. Whopper Plopper, Rapala Shad Rap, propeller, trailer light, several ned rigs. Durn!

[Tennessee Boy]

So that’s what happened to my hot dogs.  ?

[Tennessee Boy]

I’m actually surprised you were brave enough to ventured out this weekend.  Didn’t you know middle Tennessee was invaded by 170,000 Swifties?

 

[Dwight Hottle]

d**n I hope they left you some mustard. I know that feeling about losing a good one on the jump. I lost two biggies that pulled lose at the boat last week. Both heart breakers. Glad you made back ok. 

[Susky River Rat]

Sounds like a rough day. Free food is always a bonus but, I still don’t think you broke even. Glad you got off the water safely.