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TroutSlayer · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 432

Thought you guys would get a kick out of this. I have been rode hard and put up wet doing my day job but just took a week with family and some friends of my kids to Belize. Awesome trip and I had this guy I know from many years ago be our tour guide and fishing/snorkeling/lobstering/river trip etc guide. He goes by Hillyboo if that gives you a hint to where this is headed. He has 4 let's just say well maintained old boats by island standards. In any event we had a wonderful morning snorkeling, went to a small island for lunch and was just about to sneak up on his lobster traps when I said "Hilly something is strange about the vibrations coming off the motor" he said no worries.

He looked back and wondered why when he put it in reverse nothing happened. I went and looked and said you lost your prop...not spun but GONE. Wind was howling so we were drifting fast and like a pro he got an anchor out. Dove in immediately and I along with 4 kids went in search of the prop. Bout 30 mins later we find it and He goes down (about 10 ft) and gets it. You know the next question. Do you have another pin and maybe a spacer. No but no worries. I can't believe he got it going and it went full speed for at least 15 miles. Two bottle caps for washers and a nail for the pin. We are so spoiled we are losing the art of MacGyver fixing things. I won't bore you with the next day with his twin engine boat how on the fly he changed a coil while one was running....

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MakoJJ · Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 9:54 pm Post subject:

LOL, that's awesome! Laughing

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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12841

No kidding that IS awesome! It's amazing how resourceful folks are when there is no help or stores around.
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ironmanstan · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 5:05 am Post subject:

Special tools. I think I will add some bottle caps and a couple of nails to my boat tool bag.
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Chef Lefty · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 7:56 am Post subject:

That is awesome. Great story.
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deputydawg · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:18 am Post subject:

I love it!!!! Laughing

Ray · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:34 pm Post subject:

Why and how do you think '50s model cars are still most of what you see on the streets of Havana? A few years ago, we didn't have air conditioning, but we did have ingenuity! Places that have to have it, have it. Other places, where we have gotten soft, have lost a lot of it. Part of the secret is depending on ourselves and not believing government will take care of us.

There was an old saying in New Mexico stating that if you thought the government would take care of you during your life and old age, take a close look at the American Indian.

Your friend is impressive; he's still got it by the boat load; pun intended. I loved the picture.
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