Expensive first weekend of boating.

StodgeStodge Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭✭
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Noticed port starter battery was really weak when we went to leave home.  Used emergency mode and started both engines.  Lesson learned, go get new batteries when that happens.  Spent Saturday night on the hook and work up unable to crank genny or engines.  Got a friend to give me a ride home and went to home depot for new pair of starter batteries.  $$

Then since we were down to 1/4 tank filled the tanks at a marina for $2.29 a gallon. $$

But we should be good (knock wood) for a while.

Hope everyone has a safe weekend.

2002 FV 342 on Lake St. Clair - Past Commodore SHC - Vessel Examiner USCGAUX

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  • 69fastback69fastback Posts: 951 ✭✭✭
    At least you were able to get some help. 

    Boating on Saturday cost me a new phone 😡
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  • mattiemattie Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭✭
    What age were the failed starting batts? Lead Acid?


    246BR, 276BR, H310BR current
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  • J3ffJ3ff Posts: 4,227 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gas on the water here is still 4+a gallon!
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A couple batteries and a tank of fuel, you call that expensive its a boat what could possibly go wrong. Fuel was 3.09 on the water.
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • Dream_InnDream_Inn Posts: 7,936 mod
    A battery and fuel, that isn't so bad.  Glad all is ok and hope you enjoyed the weekend!

    Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those are good batteries at a good price. 
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those are great battery prices. I spent nearly that or right at that much with my shop discount right from the distributor.



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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
      Either way id have paid with a huge smile on my face.  We also get a business discount at orileys and they would have been much more than that.  I prefer going through my distributor but sometimes you need a battery now.
      

    I dont have access to battery invoices at home and msrp varies by location but 190 to 200 a pop seems right.

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  • TonyG13TonyG13 Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭✭
    Definitely a great price. I paid $142 + Tax for the same battery from Lowe's - lowest I could find - but I had to order and wait a week.
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  • Lake_BumLake_Bum Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭✭
    You got off cheap.  Now you're squared away for a few more years!  Fuel on the water on my lake is $4.98 a gallon currently!  I rarely use it, other than a top-off.  73 gallon tank, on a 232 is a huuuuuge range.  I love it 
    2000 Captiva 232 
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  • MojosBoatMojosBoat Posts: 102 ✭✭
    edited June 2020
    We put new starter batteries on our 342 last year. Last weekend was the last one for our house batteries. Time for new ones for this weekend. 
    ALL IN AGAIN, 410 FV Twin 8.1 H/O MPI, V-Drives , 
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  • Black_DiamondBlack_Diamond Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was a replace every 3 years with lead-acid batteries. That year 4 was iffy. After a new charger, I upped to the Northstar Lead AGM’s. Plan is to get ~7 + years I hope!  They are beasts for marine CCA. 

    $3.20 on the water for rec fuel (no ethanol, has Valvetech). 185 gallons. lol

    Past owner of a 2003 342FV
    PC BYC, Holland, MI
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  • Lake_BumLake_Bum Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭✭
    Bought two new batteries today.  My Deka marine's made it 3 years, and when they started to get weak, I had a couple various electrical issues.  New batts cleared that up pronto. 
    2000 Captiva 232 
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  • 06Rinker27006Rinker270 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭
    How many batteries on a 342?
    Patrick
    06 Rinker 270
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  • raybo3raybo3 Posts: 5,614 admin
    06Rinker270 said:
    How many batteries on a 342?
    I have 4. 2 for the house and 1 for the port and 1 for the S/B
    2002 342 Fiesta Vee PC Point Of Pines YC Revere MA. popyc.org     raybo3@live.com
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  • Black_DiamondBlack_Diamond Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are different definations of expensive. This os another level 😆😆

    https://www.thedrive.com/news/34250/ford-raptor-jeep-wrangler-attempt-to-save-300000-speed-boat-all-three-sink?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=90098459&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--_04UXIAyU986Q0Eq0hluNv1coMHgaz43PZs5jPghj0Re4lHZgp_CSpGi2-4XTQnLkvezSbfjE-aDgvECzzvzDIeWwRw&utm_content=90098459&utm_source=hs_email

    Past owner of a 2003 342FV
    PC BYC, Holland, MI
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  • Aqua_AuraAqua_Aura Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
    Here's his profile.
    https://instagram.com/godzilla1350?igshid=hfkudnkhcrpu

    Looks like he just got the boat in May although it also looks like he has millions in other toys so I'm sure he will be fine. 


    1997 Bayliner 3988
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  • mattiemattie Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭✭
    Aqua_Aura said:
    Here's his profile.
    https://instagram.com/godzilla1350?igshid=hfkudnkhcrpu

    Looks like he just got the boat in May although it also looks like he has millions in other toys so I'm sure he will be fine. 


    What a tool. Got his shaggin' crib, etc.....



    246BR, 276BR, H310BR current
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  • rasburyrasbury Posts: 8,951 ✭✭✭✭✭
    sure makes you wonder how some people with so little sense amass so much money...if I had just got mixed up with the kid at the hospital where I was born....
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  • aero3113aero3113 Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    rasbury said:
    sure makes you wonder how some people with so little sense amass so much money...if I had just got mixed up with the kid at the hospital where I was born....
    LoL! That’s funny! I actually did get mix up when I was born! They figured it out later when they realized I wasn’t a girl! And I Brest fed off the mother. If that happened these days, I sure a big law suit would’ve happened.
    2008 330EC
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  • 69fastback69fastback Posts: 951 ✭✭✭
    That’s not a speed boat, its a Pavati wakeboard boat, and they can easily top $300K, with options. I didn’t read the story posted here, but the story I got from someone in the area was that he was beating on the boat pretty hard, blew up the motor, and it threw a rod through the hull. They swam to the house, and put the Jeep at the edge of the bank and tried to use the wench to pull the boat in. The Jeep couldn’t hold its footing, so they got the raptor out and tied it to the Jeep, which ultimately led to both of them going in the drink. 


    Sure sounds like a good way to get out of several payments at once......
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  • Michael TMichael T Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
    .....and that's what happens when you try trust a "wench" to pull something. Sorrrrry  -just could not resist!
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