The Boat Saga Continues

Last Sat. Jerry goes down to the boat for a little while. After cleaning the year long build up of dirt, grime, and who knows what else, Jerry decides to take her out for a short ride and "test her". This is his first opportunity since Mr. Boat Fixer Upper Man is to have gotten everything "good to go", after their last test run when Mr. Boat Fixer Upper Man broke the exhaust thingy.

Jerry is alone. Bad idea. During the year+ stay at the shop, Mr. Boat Fixer Upper Man makes a new panel to replace wood that has rotted around the gear shift. The rotten wood has caused the gear shift to malfunction on occasion.

Apparently, everything is going fine until Jerry returns to the Marina and tries to put 'her' in reverse to back into the slip. That is when he discovers the gearshift will not go into reverse. Unfortunately, in trying to maneuver the boat alone and get it into the slip the break of the water sends the back of the boat into a small houseboat that is two slips down from ours. There is already quite a bit of body damage to the old houseboat but our boat rips another small hole in the body. It also tears up our swim step and ladder.

An employee of Mr. Boat Fixer Upper Man has his boat a few slips down from ours and he is "home" at the moment. Jerry talks to him and he calls Mr. Boat Fixer Upper Man and tells him what happened. MBFUM is currently at another lake but says he will come over as soon as he can.

When he arrives he says there is something wrong with the leg. He doesn't know if it is something his guys did when they were reassembling things (in case you have forgotten, they removed the engine and had to replace the damaged prop) or if it is some old part that just gave out.

He will not be able to know what the problem is until he can remove the boat from the lake and look at it. IF HE determines it is something caused by the work done, then he will fix it at no charge but if it is something that has broken...... you get the picture, I am sure. He says he will take 'her' out of the lake Monday (that would be Nov. 5 on normal folks calendars) and see what is going on and call Jerry to let him know.

Does Jerry receive a call from him Monday??? Of course not. No call from Mr. Boat Fixer Upper Man until Jerry finally calls him today and leaves a voice message that he has been waiting to hear since Monday.

Amazingly, Mr. Boat Fixer Upper Man, returns the call. Now comes a story about his trailer having a boat on it and he is waiting for an insurance company to tell him what to do with it. After he has gotten it off the trailer, he will check on our boat. *rolling eyes* Of course we know this can take days, weeks, months, or even years???

In case you are wondering about the old house boat, Jerry talked to the manager of the Yacht Club about getting the owner's name & phone number so he can call him and let him know what has happened. Mr. Yacht Club Manager says he will have to get in touch with the owner himself and tell him about the incident because the owner is getting a divorce "no one" knows how to get in touch with him except one individual. Mr. Yacht Club Manager is to contact that individual and have him get the owner to contact him, then he will call Jerry.

During the week, Jerry does not here from Mr. Yacht Club Manager. Jerry tries to call him different times during the week to see if he has gotten in touch with the owner but keeps getting voice mail. Today, Jerry goes down to work on the boat more and talks to Mr. Yacht Club Manager Man to see if he has gotten in touch with the owner. He said he has not been able to get him.

So the boat saga continues. Of course, we are not thrilled that it turns out we are still involved with Mr. Boat Fixer Upper Man. Is he to haunt us forever more???