Motor Died :(

Hope to save you some time in trouble shooting in dark if this happens to you.......
I was out fishing tonight. Everything going great, calm winds and cool enough for no bugs, fish were about jumping in boat, perfect evening. I had limit, got trailer backed in, and was driving boat around to put it on trailer it just died. I tried to start it with no avail, it just turned over. I got trolling motor down, got boat close to trailer, jumped out into water, (no dock at this launch) and cranked my 17.5' boat on. Was a pain. heading down road all worried wondering what happened, then it come to me. There is a kill switch by my throttle. I pulled over an lo and behold . It was a cool night I had coverhauls on and happen to hit darn safety kill switch cord off. Here I was fighting loading it for about 1/2 hr. and all worried. Man what a relief!!! Wish I would have thought of it on water, but the worse just kept running threw my head.

Nice man, way to admit it in public.

I have a buddy who is quit a bit younger than me, he called me a couple of weeks ago saying his dads boat wont start.

He said "it turns over and over but doesn't fire".

After going through the "basics" i asked him about the kill switch..

he said it doesn't have one.

i told him it does, its a console so look on the controls.

He got real quite..

then i heard the motor fire rite up

Just launched the boat and went to start it. Got nothing. Wind was blowing me back towards the trailer and was starting to get angry @ the yammie, or my hack wiring. Took a minute of turning circles before I realized the control box was left in gear from the last outing... :roll:

WOW....I was not expecting a turn for the good in this. Soooo glad it was a switch.

Sixgun.....Can't tell you how many times I've done that. Just rebuild my 150 over the winter and I'm really gunshy that something could still happen. Last weekend I did this very thing and started to panic. Glad that I've learned to look for my stupid mistakes first.