This is a quick snapshot of what the boat looks like at the moment. The carpet is a disaster but the woodwork is pristine. The decking took $3000 of the value of the boat right off the bat but that is easily fixed. So far every thing on her works including the engines, generator, potable water, shower and air conditioning. I stole this boat. I washed her down and she shined up pretty well. I did have an accident already and got hurt a bit.

I've been around boats all my life but none this big with twin engines and dual helms. I needed to move the boat around on the docks and the wind was being a bitch so I decided to back her out and turn her around and pull the boat back in. No big deal. I crank up the boat with the engines idling and in neutral and cast off. I put in reverse and eased her out and spun her around quite deftly using the the shifters and nudging the throttles and pulled her in bow first. As I approached the docks very slowly I hit the kill switches for the engines and the idea was to slowly drift in, jump off the boat and tie her up. I've done it before with other boats, no biggie. As I'm sliding down the ladder from the flying bridge I can hear one engine still running, oh fudge! It is barely moving, this will still work I think. I jump off the boat onto the dock and my friggin' shoe slides around my foot and down I went. I knocked my knee and wrist pretty hard but didn't think it was that bad. Anyway I grab the rope and wrap it around a cleat while the bow is slammed into the stern of the junk houseboat in the stall ahead of me with the engine just happily chugging in gear. I hobble up the ladder and I check the switches and I can't kill the engine. I can start either of them but I can't kill the starboard engine. I'm about to pull up the deck and pull the coil wire but i thought to check to inside helm first just in case.

Sure enough, the ignition switch was on for that engine. The crazy seventies and their devil may care attitude about not having completely separate engine controls or an emergency kill switch anywhere. Anyway, weekend cut short and hobbling in pain.