Quote Originally Posted by Twill View Post
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The boatyard forgot to put the covers on over the weekend for me and it got rained on. The newbie in me had a sick to my stomach feeling when I saw it - we got a lot of rain over the weekend, but they assured me boats are intended to get wet, let it dry out and get it covered back up - no harm no foul. I guess you just wouldn't want prolonged days like that to happen. Being new, it's hard to know what's acceptable and what isn't!!
I started out in an 08 LSV as well and it experienced some wild downpours and never missed a beat other than the gauges fogging up after being soaked. Some of these down pours were in the water too, one time we were out on the Trinity river a storm snuck up on us and it was raining buckets. Couldn't hardly go above idle without visibility completely going away. We finally made it to the dock and bailed out of the boat to a covered porch at the camp ground office and sat for like an hour watching the bilge pump evacuate water. Took a while to dry the carpet out after that one.