Botomnout

[Louis Rossignol]

I just talked to my buddy Bottomnout, Johnathan Noble, and found out he was in Bay Marchand,as I write this at 9pm, Wednesday night, pumping the balls to the Evinrude 235 POS he went out on, because the fuel pump went out, he was doing 5 mph on "The Scantiuary",,,,I can feel the knats, horseflies and mosquitos the area is famous for, biting me right now. Hope you shot enough fish for that adventure.

When you get old enough you will realize when it's not favorable conditions,, you don't GO!!!

You're hardcore little buddy, and every stupid mistake, makes you smarter.

Rok out

[Rig Magician]

Damn that has got to suck, he will have some red welps on him for days.

[Don B]

Went out with an Evinrude? :confused: :confused:

[Big Pig]

Went out with an Evinrude? :confused: :confused:

Not just any old Evinrude, but a 235 Evinrude. What a POS

[ROCK BOTTOM]

The best thing that ever happened to my '83 Mako was when the 235 Evinrude was stolen off of the back. Repowered it with a Yamaha and ran that bitch until '97 with no repairs and almost zero maintenance. That Yamaha 250 was the bomb.

Zz

[ROCK BOTTOM]

Pig,

I 235 Evinrude was shaft rated and not prop rated, so it was an even bigger POS than most would suspect.

Zz

[LASeaCat]

Too bad Jerred and Jonathan missed the TOW US presentation at the meeting! That would be the best $119 that they ever spent!!

[Louis Rossignol]

I blew up the 235 Evenrag on my 23 Mako, put the 200 YaMama on and NO PROBLEM!!!

Of course now that I posted this my motor will probably blow up the next time I go out.

I do better calling my boat the POS it is. Besides it almost sank in the lake last week.

Rok out

[Big Pig]

Pig,

I 235 Evinrude was shaft rated and not prop rated, so it was an even bigger POS than most would suspect.

Zz

That engine was the origional on my old Mako before it was replaced . The origional owner couldn't even insure the boat because the max HP rating was 225 and that shaft rating at 235 screwed him.

[bottomnout]

Well I'm back home sitting here scratching every inch of my body that is not sun burn.
What a trip. The day started out as usual. We get down to grand isle a see flat calm seas. The water looked like a giant flat piece of silk as far as the eye could see, oh yea it was 10:30am, a normal "Skantuary" middle of the week hangover start. Going over the grand isle bridge i looked at the water on the fishermans pier and could see about 6ft down the piling. My blood began pumping and i was ready. We headed to the camp to pick up my gear that was locked in the shed only to realize yes I forgot the ****in keys!!! Very upset I said **** it lets go. I gathered up a bunch of shitty gear from my fellow members of team Skank, One shitty mask, no wet suit or coveralls to be found, one rob allen float line, two orange rotten life jackets for my floats, a Riffe Com#2 equiped with a flopper, and to top it all off a kids snokel i bought as a joke to **** with the new guys. No big deal, I'll free dive all day and have a good time, lets roll.
We get to the marina all pumped up and ready to put the boat in the water and yes you guessed it, no KEYS!!!!!! We waited an hour or two for my buddies wife to bring the keys and we were ready to rock and roll.
We headed out all smiles because this was one of the flatest days the Skank had ever seen. You could tell she was loving it. Her newly face lifted hull cut through the 6 inch, 5sec apart wavers like butter. She was sailing to 80s rock tunes we all know by heart passing each rip at 35mph. We headed to the newly named ST Filthys where we pulled up to see a 40# lemon swiming with his 30# friends. Excited we were sliping into the warm green water to find a ripping current and 10ft of murk. But as every good freedive, like myself, knows he can use a nasty murk to his advantage. There I sit on the surface choking on salt water due to my ****ed up kiddie snorkle thinking how am I going to make it today like this. I put a few snapper in the boat and was ready to move on to the next rig, getting eaten by nats due to my exposed skin, when My buddie comes up with no shaft. Lost in Davey Jonse's locker for ever was the shaft, I been watching to much Star W. So, down to two pea shooting guns and three divers. With this horrid burning salty throat I told Blake we will share my gun as long as I can use his mask and snorkle. He didnt mind one bit and neither did I. We came up with a plan they will freedive the rig first and I will take the much too small shitty dive gear to the bottom and string up some grouper. Being the kick ass diver I am, I dominated. We dove to the sun was about to go down and were ready for the 25mile run back to the launch with two 150s full of fish. We had to make this run quick due to what happened to the running lights last week. "Lets roll" we shouted and began the adventure home.
Well we made it about a mile before being thrown to the front of the boat only to hear sputtering from the back. Right away the captain knew what happened to the 2003 evi Ram 230. She has never let us down before and I still have the upmost respect and confidence in her. Fuel pumps out, we are going to have to pump this ball the whole way home. If you have ever had to do this you know it sucks, but how many of you have done it 25 miles? I really sucks. At one point I thought we were going to get passed up by a boat pushing skimmers. It really sucks when bug are eating you alive and there is nothing you can do about it but pump the ball faster. We left at 1pm and made it back for 11pm.

So here I sit, a man broken in spirit, covered in bug bits, equiped with a nasty sun burn and horribly sore forearms. I keep telling myself "I am a rig diver, I am an elite diver who cannot let things like this get to me, I have chose this life and I must face what is thrown at me no matter how nasty a curvball it is." Who am I kidin, It ****ing sucked ass, I'd rater stay home and get kicked in the nuts ever hour for every hour I spent out there.
Jonathan Nobile

[kmoose]

Wow! It is hard to believe that there is a 2thirstyfive nonlooper still running out there! Something really funny is that a good friend of mine has a 275 V8 Evinrude on the back of his 23 Seacraft.....It runs like a top and smokes like a train....you could'nt pour gas over side in 5 gallon buckets faster than that thing can burn it. The cool thing is the cowl doubles as a liferaft for 3 people if the boat sinks.

[Marcus]

Great report! :)

[biggsy]

I'd rater stay home and get kicked in the nuts ever hour for every hour I spent out there.

Here you go brother...

[Marcus]

Good one, Biggsy! :D

[bottomnout]

Oh yea, We ran out of beer, water, and cigs the first hour of the jorney home.
Biggsy I would take that any day over nats, horseflys and mosqitos. Thats a sick pic :) .

[Wet Spot]

AANNND you want me to go WHEN? STOP CALLING ME! kidding. I just thought I needed to write a book... And Louis, if I recall you couldn't pop that piece of shit of yours if/when you tried. Just like a weed, when you want it, it won't grow.. When you don't - you can't get rid of it.

[LASeaCat]

Nobbie,

I noticed that you started using your punchuation skills during the last paragraph! Did you have a revelation while writing?

Don't worry, I'll take you diving, once that bad luck wears off!!

later..........

[Big Pig]

Oh yea, We ran out of beer, water, and cigs the first hour

That is why I always keep a spare case of beer on board. It may sit in a hatch for two years before it gets drank, but it has come in handy a couple of times.

[Mobile Diver]

Great report, Jonathan. Shit happens to everybody.

[bottomnout]

hahaha...this is blake and i just read ol capt nobles report..another crazy trip in the gulf..that 2 thirsty five gets 3.5 miles to the gallon and how many of yall can say your motor has sat on the bottom all day and still gives the capt enough confidence to sail 80 miles out without a kicker and only 50 gal of gas. so all yall honda yamis and mercs can look up at this one and say...damn i wish i had a motor like that. i will have my own screen name next time.

[jim richard]

does it go over 22 mph????

[Wil]

Blake and Jonathon, I ran my Evs on the double down for three days for the AA rodea 1 with leaking lower unit seals and one with a weak water pump, Broke just about everything on the boat due to the rough seas and still did better than yall , Whats up? :p I heard kyacks are doing better than the Skank right now. :D :D :eek: Any ways see yall in the gulf for the HD rodeo, i hope.

[bottomnout]

If the MAN wouldnt have taken our catch, the helldivers would have won the AA rodeo. The alternator just went down on the big boat, so we wont be leaving tomorrow, which means we loose a day of diving for the HDR :mad: . With my luck the boat will sink in port when the alt is fixed. I cant take it much more.

[Louis Rossignol]

And Louis, if I recall you couldn't pop that piece of shit of yours if/when you tried. Just like a weed, when you want it, it won't grow.. When you don't - you can't get rid of it.

After my 235 Evinrag blew, I tried to scam the insurance company by telling them I burned it up due to getting a shrimpers salt bag over the intakes while running.

So now all I needed was to burn it up, I yanked the bad piston out put the head back on and the thing actually ran pretty good with only 5 pistons. So I ran it outside my buddies house for one hour without the water to the motor at around 4500 RPM's. All the neighbors came out to see what all the racket was about. Some even commented, aren't you supposed to have the hose hooked up to that when your out of the water.

After an hour the cover started to turn slightly yellow. But the motor never would seize up.

The insurance adjuster had a mechanic yank the water pump, and the water pump showed no signs of wear and they never paid.

Just like bad grass, you can't kill the shit.

Rok out

[Stinkey Fish]

I am home and off to the doctor today to get a t.v. camera rammed up my ass to check for cancer, made my day got me rollin off my chair. Good report. We have all had these trips. The ocean gives and the ocean takes... An adventsure is never fun when its happening.

[SnapperKrazy!]

evinrudes suck and so do you