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Location: Champaign, Illinois | I just spent the week on Cass lake, the weather was crappy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we did see a few fish but they would not eat. the water temps started at 70 on sunday and by friday they were 61. tuesday it was rainning and windy so I took the family to town, while we were in town a big storm hit and the winds were high. when I got back to the resort (Finn & Feathers ) on Andrusia my boat was turned around on the dock. I went to investigate and the boat was a mess, one of guest came out to the dock and told me that my boat had taken on some large waves and sunk down to the top of the gunnels. What a sick feeling, there was equip all over thanks to some great people at the resort and the owners of a major problem was diverted. The reort owners grabbed some large pool pumps ond along with help from guest had the water out and back floating. Has anyone had this probem? I spent all day cleaning and vacuming today. what problems will there be? my fuse panel, batteries etc. were all under water. I had water in the gas tank and took care of that lukily the motor did not take on water. |
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| I always point the bow toward the lake if I'm on a windswept lake. Not sure what else to tell ya, just dry it out and see what happens. |
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Location: The desert | Sounds like you need to invest in an auto-bilge. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | If you have a oil injection tank check it for water. If it's not a tiller, I would also open up the throttle control/shift assembly and let it thouroughly dry out. Also take engine shift & throttle cables off and lube them. Lubing control cables can be messy but there are tricks to make it less messy.
Re. Your electrical panels & other electrical connection stuff. You need to get it inside in nice dry atmosphere and open up all hatches, etc. Disconnect all electrical connectors that were submerged, even if they are supposed to be "water proof" let it all dry out for at least a week. You could accerate the drying process with a hairdryer, just don't over heat stuff. I wouldn't use the boat until then.
Even after that there will quite likely be water still retained in between the wire insulation and the copper wires (water ingress into the cable/wiring) if either of the wire end's were submerged. But it shouldn't be a short term issue and long term there could be corrosion problems. If you've ever stripped a wire on your boat trailer and the wire was black instead of copper colored, that's from water ingress/corrosion. That's a very really problem with boat trailer wiring, as many us know from first hand experience. Aquarium grade RTV is a good sealant for crimped connections, like those on most boat trailers. But there's also trick(s)s to getting a good seal.
The tricks- I'll post later, just not enough time right now.
Al
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | That Bites, Hope you don't have any major issues, Like some others have said get a Auto Bilge pump, It can only help
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Location: syracuse indiana | mn bowhunter is right.. always point the nose out to sea and the waves will lift the bow and not let the water splash into theboat.. if you have the back of the boat facing the lake. it will splash over the back of the boat and right into it it will go...bill |
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