Well i should of stayed in bed i think
. On the way to Bribie the trailer had a bearing failure and i had to leave the trailer with my brother and continue to meet up with everyone else at the boat ramp and arrived about 10mins late. 3x Boats in total. The reason why most poeple pulled out was because of the bad weather warnings we had around our area and Bribie island was supposed to cop it bad.Unknowen to all of us, Our city of brisbane had a huge storm with flooding--Fallen trees--Blackouts and unroofed homes, All of this happend while we were out on the bribie passage, But the weather was perfect where we were. Mostly cloudy with a few patches of blue sky here and there calm water and a nice breeze to keep things nice and cool. I hitched a ride with larry and his sail boat with his century 100. 10mins after leaving the boat ramp it stopped all of a sudden. After checking the plug and blowing out the fuel bowl it was evident that it was not going to run. So larry pointed out to his Johnson outboard under a potato sack and i fitted that one to the other side of the tramson and started it up. I was looking for a FNR lever but it was a direct drive.So why are we not moving (Broken Sheer pin)
. Chris and his ballast john had to tow us to the beach so we could have a look at whats wrong with the seagull and change the sheer pin on the johnson. But to our suprise Don pulled a spare century 100 from his yacht and we swapped them over and away we went. We then had a good run up the passage and don was the first to pull up on another beach called Poverty point. (well the name said it all) We sat around for a bit until we realised that because of the breakdowns we had we wont be able to make it to donnybrook for lunch. So we started to turn back towards Toorbul. Then the spare seagull that don loan to us wouldnt start
Turned out to be the Ht Lead. So after replacing the shear pin we were of again with the johnson. 20 meters from the beach into our travels the johnson stopped
. I removed the engine cover and took the plug out to have a look and it was fine. I then looked at the carb and noticed fuel coming out everywere, I grabbed my wrench and gave the fuel bowl a few good decent taps and problem fixed. (Sticky float i reckon) After the 8th pull johnson Bros was on its way again. Now i can see the reason why most poeple pulled out at the last minute. We were up against a south east wind and it was a struggle all the way back to the boat ramp, It was eveyone for themselves. Larry and i were the fist ones back to the ramp and as we looked back we could just see chris and john way back in the distance. I could not see don at all. Not going to leave him behind we sat for a while hoping that he just stopped for a break 30mins latter we could see don coming into the harbour. Don had dramas with his 102 not pumping water so he was anchored up to fix the problem. It looked like it may have been a bit of jellyfish or a plastic bag around the water inlet. So we all made it back and called it a day and just as we left for home. Down came the rain. All in all i had a great day out. Thanks To chris--John--Don--and larry for coming along.
