He owns the OL, but confused why he is in this? Not that I care, just don't know the backstory.
EDIT: Facebook quickly cleared up the backstory issue
Might want to correct the thread title.
" An armed society is a polite society"
So Steve use to work for Tim? hummmmmmI posted about this guy a few years back. When I first bought my boat, I had it serviced at OCM. ( I now know how Tim bought and sold boats, didn't at the time) This guy was their main wrench.
Took my wife and kids out on it for the first time. My wife wasn't a big water person and was waay out of her element. We start getting steam coming from the bilge, a lot of steam. Poor girl thought the boat was on fire and had our kids in the bow ready to jump overboard.
Take the boat back to the shop to get the gernaded impeller fixed. Not only does he not back flush the water system to remove the rubber chunks of the broken impeller, he decides that the water test of the repair should entail running by boat 100+ across Windsor Bay.
Have a few more stories...
No barrel wrench for me...But glad you found your way over here.
No barrel wrench for me...But glad you found your way over here.
The engine builder I use is always a few month out just to start on it. If they are good they are busy.
That's what I thought, but not knowing this aspect of boating I thought I'd ask. Never had anyone do motor swap stuff for me, and maybe high end boat stuff is made of "unobtainium"
I can see that with specialty things. We have a guy in town here that has been building a motor for a Kindig project...since the first of the year. But that said, this guy in the post seems to have a relatively normal setup, not too much custom, and certainly nothing hand fabbed. With your builder, is he just out that far, or would he have everything that long? Being months out, even a year, is pretty normal for resto shops and custom car builders. Like you said, if they're good, other people want them too.
