polar21
06-07-2010, 12:34 PM
I posted a thread earlier about some carb problems I was having on the boat. I had the carb rebuilt and put everything back together. This past Friday, I put the boat in the water and adjusted the carb in high hopes that the boat would be ready to go on Saturday for a b-day bash for my wife at our river house in Foley, Al.
Sat. morning I wake up, clean the boat up, get everything loaded, and start the 45 minute drive to the river house. About 2 miles from my house, I remembered that I needed to put the back straps back on since I had taken them off. So, back on our way we meet up with another couple who is going to follow us out there. At about the 1/2 mark of our journey, I was coming to a section of road that had two small bridges about 100yds apart from one another.
As I cleared the first bridge, I heard a loud POP. At this point, I look in the mirror and much to my dismay the boat is laying over to the passenger side. I was doing about 50mph at this point, and needless to say, it was a wild ride trying to keep the boat and truck straight as I crossed the second short bridge. I managed to get the boat and truck on the side of the rode and hopped out to inspect the damage. Much to my surprise, the tire and rim was no where to be found and the lug nut bolts had completely sheered off (looked like someone had cut them).
The long and short of it is that the tow truck came (glad I had Boat US insurance, they covered the tow) after 3hrs and took the boat back to Pensacola to the trailer shop where they are going to remove the brakes and put open hubs on the axle. We each have our own theory about what happened so I wont go into detail on that unless someone wants me to. The boat appeared to have no damage and the trailer damage looked minimal. It could have been alot worse....
I already know I am going to get some flack here about no brakes being on the trailer...lol
Sat. morning I wake up, clean the boat up, get everything loaded, and start the 45 minute drive to the river house. About 2 miles from my house, I remembered that I needed to put the back straps back on since I had taken them off. So, back on our way we meet up with another couple who is going to follow us out there. At about the 1/2 mark of our journey, I was coming to a section of road that had two small bridges about 100yds apart from one another.
As I cleared the first bridge, I heard a loud POP. At this point, I look in the mirror and much to my dismay the boat is laying over to the passenger side. I was doing about 50mph at this point, and needless to say, it was a wild ride trying to keep the boat and truck straight as I crossed the second short bridge. I managed to get the boat and truck on the side of the rode and hopped out to inspect the damage. Much to my surprise, the tire and rim was no where to be found and the lug nut bolts had completely sheered off (looked like someone had cut them).
The long and short of it is that the tow truck came (glad I had Boat US insurance, they covered the tow) after 3hrs and took the boat back to Pensacola to the trailer shop where they are going to remove the brakes and put open hubs on the axle. We each have our own theory about what happened so I wont go into detail on that unless someone wants me to. The boat appeared to have no damage and the trailer damage looked minimal. It could have been alot worse....
I already know I am going to get some flack here about no brakes being on the trailer...lol