(I typed this on a phone, so bear with me...)
Thursday drove 1/2 way down and spent the night in Hannibal.
Friday arrived in LOTO got acclimated, swam, that night I took a group to Paradise, had fun, came home no issues.
Saturday woke up played around the condo, took both boats, mine and my brother-in-laws Brand M with a 2009 Mercury proxs, to party cove, kids swam we had a great time. Dinner time we decided to go to Frankie & Louie's, went there had a great time. On the way back, about 10:30 the bro in laws boat starts acting up, shaking at higher speeds, so we decide to limp it in, after about 5 minutes, he loses all prop power. So we tow him back to a community ramp, load as many as we can onto my boat, head home, get his trailer, head back, load up, and by this time when we get home it's 3 A.M., and the entire time we are having a blast. We all know things break, you get it fixed and move on.
Sunday woke up took the bro in laws boat to get it looked at, find out the lower is shot (we figured, but why not have an expert look at it). Now we are down to one boat my boat, no big deal. We decided to head out early afternoon. On our way back towards, Frankie & Louie's we saw a HUGE rental house so we headed back in a cove to take a look, got back in there about a 1/2 mile and the warning buzzer sounds. I shut down, walk back and all I see behind me is a pool of oil, the transom is full of oil, I lift the hood and the motor is covered in oil. Luckily we are by a ton of houses, people helping left and right. We tied up to a dock and called Towbotus. No big deal, we know the motor is under warranty, and we will get it fixed. So the tow boat shows up, and it's the nicest Captain, Dewayne, he helps us get hooked up, all the while we are laughing and joking with him. We are on our merry way getting towed in. (I'll post a photo of Dewayne pulling us). This company is class act and he was then perfect Captain.
As we were being towed in by the Tan tar a resort (for those of you who know the LOTO area) there is an island, behind the island is a no wake, probably a 1/2 mile, it's a long no wake. FLYING through the no wake was a BOAT LOAD (12 maybe?) of people full bore up on plane heading towards the dock, they were a LONG WAY into the no wake, and guess what, it's a rental boat from the resort. They are heading straight towards Captain Dewayne, he shuts down we are waiving our arms and yelling, they are LAUGHING WHOOPING AND HOLLERING, and now they are coming at my boat. They get closer and closer, I run out to the bow, scream at the top of my lungs, "put it in reverse and gun it, as fast as you can, go backwards". They gun FORWARD, their swim platform, went under my Starboard toon, and they turned towards Dewanye, caught the tow rope and started pulling us forward and Dewayne backwards. We unhooked the tow rope, and Dewanye started chewing ass, the Resort people were trying to figure out what to do. We got docked, I told the resort people to keep that boat on a rope and away from the dock, and told them to get every security person they had.
THE PEOPLE IN THE BOAT WERE YELLING AT US SAYING IT WAS OUR FAULT. CRAZY!!! And at that moment, I remembered what Grandpappy always said, "Son, you can't reason with stupid!" I have now witnessed what he was talking about, no matter what ANYONE said, they were not in the wrong, not the bright red boat with flashing red and yellow lights, not the red flags, not the rope strung from one boat to the other. I stayed we'll away from them.
We talked to the State Patrol and sadly enough this is a common occurrence, and becuse they did not witness it, and there was no property damage (not even a frayed rope), there was nothing he could do but give them a stern talking to.
I have yet to talk to the resort, but I want to know what their Corrective Action is to make sure they people they rent to understand what they are doing when they board a water craft. We docked my boat at the Marina, and decided to let her sit for the night.
So that night we, went to Wobbly Boots to get some BBQ, walking out, I stubbed my toe and got blood all over my sandal.
Thursday drove 1/2 way down and spent the night in Hannibal.
Friday arrived in LOTO got acclimated, swam, that night I took a group to Paradise, had fun, came home no issues.
Saturday woke up played around the condo, took both boats, mine and my brother-in-laws Brand M with a 2009 Mercury proxs, to party cove, kids swam we had a great time. Dinner time we decided to go to Frankie & Louie's, went there had a great time. On the way back, about 10:30 the bro in laws boat starts acting up, shaking at higher speeds, so we decide to limp it in, after about 5 minutes, he loses all prop power. So we tow him back to a community ramp, load as many as we can onto my boat, head home, get his trailer, head back, load up, and by this time when we get home it's 3 A.M., and the entire time we are having a blast. We all know things break, you get it fixed and move on.
Sunday woke up took the bro in laws boat to get it looked at, find out the lower is shot (we figured, but why not have an expert look at it). Now we are down to one boat my boat, no big deal. We decided to head out early afternoon. On our way back towards, Frankie & Louie's we saw a HUGE rental house so we headed back in a cove to take a look, got back in there about a 1/2 mile and the warning buzzer sounds. I shut down, walk back and all I see behind me is a pool of oil, the transom is full of oil, I lift the hood and the motor is covered in oil. Luckily we are by a ton of houses, people helping left and right. We tied up to a dock and called Towbotus. No big deal, we know the motor is under warranty, and we will get it fixed. So the tow boat shows up, and it's the nicest Captain, Dewayne, he helps us get hooked up, all the while we are laughing and joking with him. We are on our merry way getting towed in. (I'll post a photo of Dewayne pulling us). This company is class act and he was then perfect Captain.
As we were being towed in by the Tan tar a resort (for those of you who know the LOTO area) there is an island, behind the island is a no wake, probably a 1/2 mile, it's a long no wake. FLYING through the no wake was a BOAT LOAD (12 maybe?) of people full bore up on plane heading towards the dock, they were a LONG WAY into the no wake, and guess what, it's a rental boat from the resort. They are heading straight towards Captain Dewayne, he shuts down we are waiving our arms and yelling, they are LAUGHING WHOOPING AND HOLLERING, and now they are coming at my boat. They get closer and closer, I run out to the bow, scream at the top of my lungs, "put it in reverse and gun it, as fast as you can, go backwards". They gun FORWARD, their swim platform, went under my Starboard toon, and they turned towards Dewanye, caught the tow rope and started pulling us forward and Dewayne backwards. We unhooked the tow rope, and Dewanye started chewing ass, the Resort people were trying to figure out what to do. We got docked, I told the resort people to keep that boat on a rope and away from the dock, and told them to get every security person they had.
THE PEOPLE IN THE BOAT WERE YELLING AT US SAYING IT WAS OUR FAULT. CRAZY!!! And at that moment, I remembered what Grandpappy always said, "Son, you can't reason with stupid!" I have now witnessed what he was talking about, no matter what ANYONE said, they were not in the wrong, not the bright red boat with flashing red and yellow lights, not the red flags, not the rope strung from one boat to the other. I stayed we'll away from them.
We talked to the State Patrol and sadly enough this is a common occurrence, and becuse they did not witness it, and there was no property damage (not even a frayed rope), there was nothing he could do but give them a stern talking to.
I have yet to talk to the resort, but I want to know what their Corrective Action is to make sure they people they rent to understand what they are doing when they board a water craft. We docked my boat at the Marina, and decided to let her sit for the night.
So that night we, went to Wobbly Boots to get some BBQ, walking out, I stubbed my toe and got blood all over my sandal.