(keys jingling)
- Alright, here we go, the starting exercise.
Number one, it's like a jet-ski.
This has a clip.
This clip is supposed to be attached to you, okay?
The other end of this to your life jacket
when you're driving.
I don't always, but it's recommended,
cause if you fly off the boat,
this is supposed to pull off like a jet-ski
and then stop your boat instead of it keep going.
Good idea if it's choppy out.
So the first thing is always put this on the kill switch.
This is the kill switch here and that goes on first.
The boat won't start unless this is on.
Sometimes, I've forgotten to and try to turn it over
and wondering, "Why is it not starting?"
You need this kill switch on.
Good to have a whistle on there.
You're gonna have to get yourself one of these.
I think it's a mandatory thing for being on the water.
And this is the starting key.
So you put that sucker in, okay?
You just find how you put it in to the thing
and in the off position.
You wanna like turn it up and that turns it to run.
Now you should all of a sudden see on your dials here,
the level of the gas, it should show properly.
Then you run the blower for a bit
of course if the back isn't open.
Now, do not ever start this again if it's out of the water.
Ever, ever, ever, ever, only in the water.
And you make sure that this here is pulled out, okay?
That means that it's in neutral position
and you're tied to the dock in a good fashion.
And this is in it's...
It's always good to kind of wiggle it
just to make sure it's here.
Now, it's...
When you're ready to start it...
I always do start it, push it forward a bit.
You don't wanna have it in
or it floods the engine or anything, okay?
So you kinda push it forward, right?
And cause you...
As you go to turn this on, you might wanna just
nudge it a bit to try to catch the gas, it'll go...
(imitates roaring engine)
and like die.
And then you can just give it a little bit of extra gas
to kinda like in control as you turning this over.
So to choke is this.
This is a choke button.
When you press in, you press...
And right now it's in the center position.
You press in and turn
(imitates roaring boat engine)
and it's gonna go and then let off.
Don't press in and turn more than
three seconds, four seconds.
You can blow your starter, okay?
So you're choking and turnover.
The method is that you don't need to choke it
after engine's warm
but for some reason, this engine likes to be choked
at every time.
You got to run it a once a day, some...
But I always like to test it first, not choke it first.
Just turn it and
(imitates roaring engine)
not push in, just turn right, right,
to the thing without choking it.
First always test that the first time
and see if it goes, if it doesn't then wait three seconds,
four seconds, five seconds, 30 seconds
and then go and then press in
and then press in and turn while it's still pressed in
and turn it over to the side as it is pressed in
and that's choking while starting it.
And then one, two, three, four,
and then stop and it should go.
If it doesn't, give it a rest, wait again.
And then just kind of check things, wiggle things,
make sure everything's on, the switch is on well,
and then go and choke again, press in and turn over.
(imitates roaring engine)
It's gonna
(imitates roaring engine)
and then almost sound like it's going
and sometimes almost going going down
and then just kind of give it a little bit of throttle
and to catch it and then okay.
And keep throttle forward till you're feeling comfortable
that it's running,
and as soon as it's...
Like, of course, you'd let go of the key
and it's came back to center
and you're playing with this now,
and then just kinda let it off to the center position
when you're neutral and just...
Now that it's turned over.
And that's the gist.
And now it's running
and it's just sitting there bubbling,
you're feeling a little propulsion,
it kinda does, kind of cause wake.
So it will and even in the neutral
with this thing's pulled out.
So you have people on the dock ready to take the ropes off,
you're holding the dock as we did before,
and even if you can push it out
and get this going in the water I mean.
Sometimes there's no one around and you can kick it over out
in the water instead of being tied to the dock.
But it's your call.
Again, so when you wanna go, everything's untied
and the backs down and everything
and everyone's in there positioned properly,
you push this in and then you throttle up.
Never throttle fast.
It's not a ski boat.
You just go out and then slowly ramp up and then you'll...
In places where you're not supposed to have wake,
leaving marinas always be respectful, don't cause a wake.
Go slow, slow, slow for a long time, until you get out
of the thing, then you can pick it up so that you plane.
And that's kind of the respectful fashion
cause you don't wanna be pushing other boats
with your wake while they're tied to the dock
and smashing into it.
It's all a respectful thing boating.
So choking is to...
It says right here, "Push to choke."
So it's in the off position now, put it to run.
You know everything's on, you should notice
the battery's working great or nothing turns on.
You're like, "Oh, I forgot to put the battery in lines."
and go back there and lean over and tighten them up
and then push in and push in and over while it's in
and then one, two, three and then let go
while this is going and give it a go.
Again,
boats are like lawnmowers.
They don't always turn over as easily.
It's not like your car (indistinct)
unless you get the really expensive brand new one.
They just...
That's what happens with the stroke engines
and this is an oil gas mixture engine
very common with boats and that's what happens.
It's good to listen to the engine,
watch the engine, see if anything's loose.
Like people that look after engines,
they know that there's bolts tightened to a certain degree.
You can get the manual for this.
I recommend take it once every couple of years
to your marina, get them to do a summer maintenance,
get ready for summer maintenance check
and they'll soup it up for a couple 100 bucks
and make sure it's all tiptop
and go over it for you
and that's really what I recommend to look after this.
When you go to store this, there's a stabilizer fuel
that you can put in to make the fuel nice,
to stabilize it through the winter.
I can tell you what the name of that...
I always do that when I put it into storage in a garage,.
I put this thing inside every single winter.
I have some beams I'm gonna give you
and the canopy to go over it.
So if you're leaving in the fall and there's leaves
and all that stuff, then that'll help you to keep it well
because they do have that little area down here
which water roll when it's up on an angle of the boat,
the water will pour out here go into the gas,
the engine compartment down below
and just stream at the back two holes.
And that's primarily it.
I'm sitting in the boat right now
and showing you some things
and I guess we'll just look at the engine here for a second.
Everything's good.
Everything's done well.
You can see that the gas is really well in here
and there's the little pump down there.
There's the squeeze that you can use
if you need to send some gas.
That's usually at the start of the season here
but it's always pretty done good.
This has all been redone.
This is that starter kit you'll see you guys pay like
1200 bucks to get fixed
and all the wiring, it's all clean brand new.
You could use a pressure washer in here
and you could spray down nice to clean all that
and just get this all nice and clean sort of thing.
You can even paint over it if you wanted to
but you could clean all that kind of mildew up
and send it out.
And it's all the way to the front of the boat too.
It goes like this hole underneath open,
and you can make it all nice and any sort of gas residue
and keep it nice and clean
and clean down these things with the sponge
which is in here too and keep it all beautiful, right?
Keep the mildew and the growth off and keep it all sparkly.
And that's it for now.
If I think of any other things, I'll write some stuff
and you can just stay in touch
and I'll hope to see some great photos of you
having fun on the water.