Did i ever tell you about my friend's boat?
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This monster of a machine is a whole 22feet long and has all of 15 horsepowers making it... incredibly slow. and durring the last summer i spent probably 2-3 days a week on this thing. and i dont regret one second of it.
it also has a pretty solid stereo onboard which is needed if you want to hear music over the engine. now this one trip in particular at the end of summer we had been going for a few hours when something went very wrong with the steering it still worked. a little. you could turn the wheel all the way around and at the very end you'd get a very slight resistance turning the rudder a few inches, this ofcourse had to happen an hour from our destination, in the dark. so not only do we have to go trough the city past it and into a tight canal with barely any steering but we also can barely see. the one hour trip took about 3 due to having to stop and turn the boat with an ore for any sharp turns. it was pretty exiting it was still a fun trip tho i mean we made it trough. the broken part has since been replaced.. with zip ties. and is as good as ever!

some time later, weather was getting a bit chilly at this point we were chilling on the boat with a few beers while it was parked after a while we got a little bored and decided we'd make a fuel run. the weather forecast said "some wind" it turned out to be a borderline storm. it was scary because you gotta take the waves from the front or rear in this boat or it's like sitting in a washing machine. i dont remember much of this trip to be honest. i pretty much sat frozen in a chair and waited for it to be over. i did calm down and get used to it for a little bit but 5 minutes after i was calm a huge wave washed over the front and i went back to frozen in the chair eventually we made it over and into some cover on the other side, now it was just the trip back over the other way. i handled it very much the same but a little better as i didnt have to look at the waves this time around. after finally parking and securing the boat we went back to chilling so much infact all 3 of us fell asleep. waking up the day after it was quite cold and in hindsight crossing a storm with a zip tied steering, proooobably not the best idea. still gives bragging rights!