Well on Saturday we decided to take the jet boat out on the lake. Lake Conroe had a poker run and I thought it would be fun to go home put up the o'l trusty pontoon boat and bring back the jet boat. bp and Tom have been helping me with some things with the boat as I just bought it a couple months ago. 18ft Rogers with a 468 bbc. Well, I got back to the lake and all the big boats were gone so we decided to ride around and look at some of the homes on the lake. We had'nt been 200 ft up the shore line when the boat went up on a wake and came down, I guess right in the middle of tree that had been cut off by one of the local home owners. I was able to get the boat in about 7ft of water before it sank. I called the Constables office they sent their deputy, he got all the information. He set me up with a guy to come out Sunday morning and float the boat and get on a trailor. Well the guy called me Sunday morning at 8:00 am, and said he couldn't get it Sunday as the wind was blowing out of the West instead of the southeast like they thought it would be. I just happen to ask him a price. $1800 to get back on a trailor. and it would be Monday before they could get to it. I couldn't let my motor set under water any longer. So, I called my nephew, my cousin and a friend. We took my 22ft pontoon boat with 88hp Johnson and went and found my boat. Once we were able to get the nose out the water, you'd thought someone was in the boating driving it. I pulled it a half a mile to the boat launch and pulled it on the trailor with another truck. My boat is now at home, it didn't cost $1800 to get it there and I have already taken the motor apart all the way down to the block. The stump popped a hole in the hull about 5" X 30". it just ripped a big hole in the bottom. So my once fun boat has become my project boat.
Bo