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- 2021
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I was out on the water today near the skyway bridge in Tampa bay, My girlfriend was riding on my ski and we were totally alone on the water no other boats or people around.
We started to see a lot of big thunder storms forming all around us, this is fairly normal for this time of year. Having picked up a lot of weeds in the pump we Stopped in some flats where the water was not very deep. keeping an eye out for these storm since the lightning is usually pretty bad , the wind and rain can be unbelievably violent.
I decided to get us the hell out of that area to avoid the storms. After clearing the intake of weeds I hit the start button, nothing happened! Pulled the lanyard and reinstalled it, nothing happened! checked the throttle to insure it was not the throttle positioning sensor keeping it from starting.
I was a bit concerned and worried about her standing in salt water with storms around us. I told her we may have to walk across the flats to get to someplace where a rescue boat can come out to get us.
She was not the least bit worried, it surprised me actually since I was not real happy with out predicament.
She looked at me and calmly said I'm not worried I'm with MacGyver he always gets us out of trouble we will be fine.
I thought ok what could be doing this, then I decided to remove the battery and check it for water, I had no tools other than a pocket knife and a rusted up screwdriver. I managed to get the battery out and sure enough it was very low on water, I did have a bottle of water up in the front of the ski that had been there for probably a year I had forgotten it was there. I added water to each cell of the battery , reinstalled it, had her get ready to go so when I hit the button if it started we could go immediately. I hit the button and it started right away , we made it back and after filling it and charging it for 30 minutes we ran around the rest of the day with no more problems. MacGyver pulled through once again!
We started to see a lot of big thunder storms forming all around us, this is fairly normal for this time of year. Having picked up a lot of weeds in the pump we Stopped in some flats where the water was not very deep. keeping an eye out for these storm since the lightning is usually pretty bad , the wind and rain can be unbelievably violent.
I decided to get us the hell out of that area to avoid the storms. After clearing the intake of weeds I hit the start button, nothing happened! Pulled the lanyard and reinstalled it, nothing happened! checked the throttle to insure it was not the throttle positioning sensor keeping it from starting.
I was a bit concerned and worried about her standing in salt water with storms around us. I told her we may have to walk across the flats to get to someplace where a rescue boat can come out to get us.
She was not the least bit worried, it surprised me actually since I was not real happy with out predicament.
She looked at me and calmly said I'm not worried I'm with MacGyver he always gets us out of trouble we will be fine.
I thought ok what could be doing this, then I decided to remove the battery and check it for water, I had no tools other than a pocket knife and a rusted up screwdriver. I managed to get the battery out and sure enough it was very low on water, I did have a bottle of water up in the front of the ski that had been there for probably a year I had forgotten it was there. I added water to each cell of the battery , reinstalled it, had her get ready to go so when I hit the button if it started we could go immediately. I hit the button and it started right away , we made it back and after filling it and charging it for 30 minutes we ran around the rest of the day with no more problems. MacGyver pulled through once again!
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