My brother and I took a trip over to Blackshear today (Tuesday). The main reason was to check out my new old boat I just got and to hopefully do a little fishing. Got a late start and didn't get there until around 11:00. Got the boat in the water and she cranked right up. I idled over to the dock and was waiting for my brother to park the truck and I'm thinking, man this thing cranked right up and is running good. I didn't no more than get that thought out of my head before it started spitting and sputtering and finally shut off. My brother saw gas dripping pretty good out from around the cowling. Thought I may have flooded it by sitting there idling, so we let it set a few minutes and tried again. After several tries it finally cranked and we took off before it had a chance to shut off again. After running a few minutes, it was obvious there was something wrong with the engine, so we shut it down and was going to use the trolling motor to do a little fishing around the tressel. Naturally it didn't work either.
Well I, at least, got to check everything out with the boat and that was my primary reason for going but we were still kinda put out to say the least.
I cried all the way home just thinking about how high the bill was going to be for all of the repairs.