I finally got out on the water tonight- I was VERY excited to give the 'eyes a shot. However, when I got my boat in the water I turned the key and got nothing. I figured the battery was dead (I had no idea why it would be dead), but I jumped it from the trolling motor battery and got nothing. There are three fuses near the battery and all of them checked out fine. I checked the fuse panel and the only one that was bad was for the radio- so that shouldn't have been the culprit. The guages on the dash are dead as could be, but when I got home the battery showed up as having a decent charge. My boat is a 1700 Alumacraft tournament pro (1998) with a 115 four stroke Yammy on the back. Does anyone have a likely culprit for my problems?... or is this too general of a problem and I just need to hunt down the spot where the wire no longer carries power? Thanks, Scoot
I went ahead and watched some of the MLF coverage. Wheeler didn’t make the cut but the bigger story was the Poche/Avera fallout.
Kinda funny listening to both sides of the story and putting together the scenario, reading between the lines.
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I finally got out on the water tonight- I was VERY excited to give the 'eyes a shot. However, when I got my boat in the water I turned the key and got nothing. I figured the battery was dead (I had no idea why it would be dead), but I jumped it from the trolling motor battery and got nothing. There are three fuses near the battery and all of them checked out fine. I checked the fuse panel and the only one that was bad was for the radio- so that shouldn't have been the culprit. The guages on the dash are dead as could be, but when I got home the battery showed up as having a decent charge.
My boat is a 1700 Alumacraft tournament pro (1998) with a 115 four stroke Yammy on the back.
Does anyone have a likely culprit for my problems?... or is this too general of a problem and I just need to hunt down the spot where the wire no longer carries power?
Thanks,
Scoot
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