Howdy Bag 'em...

No such thing as a "dumb" question...

IMO, Working on boats is something one does when :

1. There is 5' of snow on the ground and the river is frozen..

2. No open seasons on anything, anywhere in the state. (or any adjoining state).

3. Your adding on the latest "toy" to your treasure.

4. Its too dark to see well enough to fish, and your halogen lamp is burned out, or its not legal to fish at night.

5. The %$#* thing won't run, and must be immediately attended to so you can get to Shilshole early enough to still have a parking spot. You can sleep after you get home, clean up the boat, fillet the catch, run fresh-water through both motors and clean/lube your reels.

NOTE : Polishing, cleaning and shining up your "baby" is not considered as "working" on your boat. The term "working" refers to getting dirt and/or grease on your person. This effort is often accompanied by a neighbor giving you advice on the workings of the internal combustion engine (although he's never even had the heads off of his 1968 Caprice,) and the utterance of several clearly pronounced colorful metaphors, typically shouted at the walls as you lick the blood off of the knuckle you just whacked for the 4th time as you tried to get a wrench on that stinking starter bolt that some very small person with fingers 8" long and the strength of Thor placed in a spot intended to frustrate all but the guy getting $75.00 an hour for removing.

On rare occasion (when all else fails), you call you local boat mechanic and shout............. !!

I love working on boats. So tell me, why do you ask?


Mike B