Conversation with a guy at the lake on Sunday

[DBamaC]

I was on Lake Mitchell (Alabama) on Sunday making sure my new chartplotter was working right (it was, thanks for asking) and decided to go up into Big Y Cove, an area I never bothered to go up into because I thought it just ended into one big house. I had been conversing with a member here (ccrayjr) who had said that it went back pretty far and of course he was right. In hindsight I guess the name "Big Y Cove" should have been a clue, but anyway...

So I'm going into an area toward the end of one leg of the Y and my depth alarm goes off. No big deal, I have it set at 3' About that time a guy yells at me from an adjacent boathouse "Hey, you better get your transom up, you're churning up mud." I yell back that I'm OK, I'm a jet. He yells back something like "Oh! Then you're in big trouble." I'm thinking what the hell is he talking about. I glance back and at 24" depth and idle, the mud on the bottom is so soft that it looks like I'm churning mud. I yell back "I'm good" and in my line I sight I see that his next door neighbor has a jet. I guess he's never seen it on the water...ever.

So misunderstood.

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

You messed up and missed your chance, the correct reply is, don't worry I have it in 4 wheel drive.

 

[Noko]

Whats a, "Transom"? I got a front, back and two sides to my boat.

I got a similar question at my lake in Wis. I had my boat on the trailer filling it up and a guy asked me were I used my boat. Now I'm about 100 yards away from my lake at the gas station but I'm wondering why he thought I wouldn't use it in the lake right there? I told him it was a jet and he said he knew that since he saw the back. I guess a 24' sitting on the trailer looks pretty big. But our lake is 2,500 acres and most of it is over 3' and deeper so the boat can go most anywhere, except under the road bridge.

 

[haknslash]

Lol funny story! I grew up on that lake (Ware Island , the one with the landing strip). Good times on that beautiful lake, much better than Lay IMO but I'm biased

 

[Murf'n'surf]

Should have yelled...." I'm here to dredge the cove" then floored it!