gsbrown
Jetboaters Lieutenant
- Messages
- 205
- Reaction score
- 212
- Points
- 162
- Location
- Hilltown, PA
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2017
- Boat Model
- AR195
- Boat Length
- 19
Today I took my new AR195 out for the 3rd time. Saturday was my maiden voyage at the dealership and I was boating on the New Jersey bay at Toms River. Nice and clean there . Sunday I took it to a local lake in Pennsylvania and that was clean too. But today the wife and I played hooky (83 degrees and sunny in October... had to do it!) I took it to the Delaware river and cruised down to Philadelphia. Had to steer around many floating logs among other things. On my way back up river the engine started sounding loud so I shut it down right away. I open the back and took out the clean out port. Reached in there and took out a bic lighter and a red straw. Put it back together and started back up. Still sounds loud so I shut it down again and reach into the clean out port again. Couldn't feel anything . Put it back together again and start it up again. I go forward then backward. Still sounds loud. Reach into the port one more time and I feel a tiny sharp thing stuck in the impeller. I can't pull it out by hand. Then I remember that the owners manual had a small black bag with tools. Use the pliers to pull out the stuck object. Can you believe it was tiny broken piece of a sharpie marker. I looked at my wife and said good thing this clean out port is here. I don't know what i would have done without it. The whole issue was only about 5 minutes so I can't complain. Turned out to be a great day on the water.
