I heard there was a Triton 20x2 with a 250xs fishing the Weekend Series on Buggs Island, buddy of mine said "the motor fell off the boat".Does anyone have details?Was anyone injured?
I heard there was a Triton 20x2 with a 250xs fishing the Weekend Series on Buggs Island, buddy of mine said "the motor fell off the boat".Does anyone have details?Was anyone injured?
I was ther this weekend and didn't hear anything about it.
Someone told me the same story...also heard the co-angler was thrown from the boat and busted up a couple of ribs
2008 Bass Cat Pantera II
did anyone hear anything more? hope everyone was ok...
got this off of skeeter page .......................tim
have an 08 ZX225 and after my last day of practice on Kerr for a BWS regional I noticed my jack plate had two wicked cracks in it. One is on the part that is flat to the back of the boat about 2 inches form the right hand edge. The other is on the right side (looking from the rear) about 2 Inches from the back of the the boat, Its cracked all the way through and goes down about 4 inches (about 1 inch down from where the tie down hook is.
That night I found a guy who would MIG tack it for me but he said the back of the boat would get burned bad, so I took my chances and fished the tournament, Plus I decided it would be better not to tamper with it as not to void my warranty.
Has anyone seen anything like this? I check and maintain my boat meticulously. one day it was OK the next day it was there, and i did not hit ANYTHING.
Anyway she is on her way to the dealer ASAP, Maybe they could figure it out,
On an other note. Driving that boat those two days (even though I babied her) was probably the stupidest thing I could have done. Another boater with 2008 Triton with a 225 Merc blasted off, and within sight of the ramp, the motor mounts on the Merc busted and the boat went bezerk, his non-boater was ejected, and the motor was hanging on to the boat by the cables. Luckily no one was seiriously hurt, My point is that could easily have been me, I don't Know if he was aware of any problem or not, but I DID KNOW and i drove it anyway. Make sure you know what your getting into if you are going to operate your boat with something broke.
It really made me think, and a tournament is not worth your life.
BE SAFE,
Mark "BASSHAMMER" Catanio
Thanks for the update... that's pretty scary info. I know personally of 3 people that lost outboards totally or had it hanging by the cables and in every case it was a jack plate problem, more specifically bolts that were either not tightened properly, stretched, or worked their way loose. All 3 were uninjured but have really scary stories. This is a good reminder to go check things out!
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