[Jet Ski Brian]

Woke up this morning to calm winds and saw marine forcast was not calling
for small craft advisory till 1300. So I threw it all in the boat and left at 0630.
Arrived at 18 as the sun was coming up and put out 6 lines with eels at various
depths made 4 long drifts and at 1000 I could not start my port engine and lost
power to half my electronics. Spent the next thirty minutes checking and pulling
on all battery connections ( I thought ). Based on forcast I decided to cut the day
short and head back to poquoson on one. Two hours later and as the wind is now
a steady 20 knots ( glad I left when I did ) I arrive back to a super low tide. I
sometimes expect that this time of year so had pulled and tied of my Port-A-Boat
outside of my cove when I left. I glad I did because I could not trim up that port
engine to push my way in on a low tide.
After I tied up I did some more searching and found a broken cable going into
the battery selector switch. Never fails I find the problem after slow trip back.
Oh well no fish today but still better than work. I will be back out again soon.

 

[wavygravy]

So THAT was the problem last time we went out. O well, at least now you know. Fill up the coolers next time.

 

[Jet Ski Brian]

Travis, It has been acting up and I could not find it. Today it was toast so I was able to find it.
Time to tear it all out and start from scratch.

 

[flounderman06]

thats 1 ugly connector. learned a long time ago to check battery connections first. went out 2 fire my boat up, cranked slow, checked connectors same as yours!

 

[ruger77]

You may know already.... this stuff works!

NO-OX-ID

Coat conductors before the crimp and coat the connectors before they are bolted down.
Works great on GPS, and VHF plugs too.:thumbup:

Glad you made it back safe!

James

 

[Finfever21]

Glad to hear you made it back safely Brian.. damn cables..

 

[cmacdol]

Glad you found it!

Les

 

[Firedog1954]

Brian Are you in york County or Poq. ?

 

[PlaynHooky]

I am sure that was a fun ride on one engine! Dang that tide gets low! Sorry no love from the striper gods......

Glad you got it figured out!!

 

[Jet Ski Brian]

Darren & James, thanks for the advice.
Firedog1954, I live in Poquoson.
Robert, see you later today.

 

[tonydivefish]

brian one day i had fishdad & playinhooky meet me @ owl's creek to fish on an icey morn & had a battery cable catch on fire @ the dock. 1st time for them from hampton area to my boat. it happens.

 

[Here We Go]

I had a loose ground that drove me nuts for a long time. Boat ran fine until the block heated up then it would miss. Glad you got back in and found the issue.

Keith

 

[BYRD]

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Electronics can be voodooesque at times. Tracing wire can be a real pain in the arse. Glad you found it, and know what it is.

 

[nicbuc]

Brian, do you think your boat is paying you back for not taking her out since you have been showing all the love to the ski? :yes:

 

[bluecat]

I saw the LAST RESORT out around 18 on Tuesday....we only caught one fish all day and that was at 4pm. Pretty rough around the Highrise yesterday!

 

[Jet Ski Brian]

Nicbuc, but I love em both. They each have their time and place, though I do need to show the Grady some tlc.