So I was in my office and my neighbor called…frantic…she asked me to run down to her house to see if the boat house was on fire….so I jumped in the rep mobile and jammed down the street….only to find that indeed the boat had caught fire, but it had broken the lift and floated out in the lake!!
So like any neighbor would do i jammed back tot he house to grab the Jet Ski and see what I could do to help the situation out. After consulting the bifougled firemen on shore they said go for it and I prceeded to put on a how to spray things demo with my Yamaha sit down. A side back story Bates and I used to get in trouble at Cypress Gardens for spraying audiences with the Sea Doos etc, so much that we’d blast them knocking off their glasses hats, wigs etc….we were good and we could pin point on one person in the audience, so a 20ft boat with 6-8′ flames licking off the top was no challenge, or so I thought. You see something else I learned is that fiberglass and the components of a boat are largely petroleum based….so it took almost sinking the damn boat to put it out, not to mention the fact that the neighbor said he’d heard some explosions, and I was smelling gas…so I was a little concerned, but courage prevailed….I put that damn thing out and then proceeded to tow it back to their house…..hindsight I wish I had done some ollies over the flames, that would have been rad….any way shortly after all the drama was done Jeff House and Derek Grasman showed up to see what was up….the whole town heard of the experience and I thought you all should too…..pics below, moral of the story…well there isn’t one, I just had fun playing in the water with fire, unfortunatley at my neighbors’ expense, but it got the heart rate up on a somewhat laid back Friday afternoon.
