splashdown

[THEFERMANATOR]

Well I got impatient today and decided to get my SEARAY to the point I could dunk her and get the next list of repairs together. I couldn't stand working on it anylonger without some sort of payoff.
I borrowed my uncles pickup to move it(no pink JEEP shots today-almost)

Here it is, FINALLY in the water

The ramp looked good in my rearview

All systems were pretty good for the most part, the temp guage is off by almost 20 degrees though.

I even got to relax a little and let EL CAPITAN take over for awhile

And now the real fun begins, the trailer needs some SERIOUS work. So loading was a BISNITCH!

All in all it was a good day. The engine ran great, although I didn't even try and push it over 3700 RPM's. I took it super easy on it since I didn't know what it was gonna do, plus I've been waiting 3 weeks for my synthetic MERCRUISER HP gear oil >:((MERCURY's new dealer system kicked my order out) so I'm just running some cheapo WAL-MART gear oil in it for now. I need to get an ALPHA T-stat housing for it, at low idle the temp guage would every once in awhile start to jump eratically. I only had a BRAVO housing(that's what came on the replacement engine), and I wanted to run it and see what would happen. And I still need to fix the trailer, as well as some of the interior. I should have it all buttoned up by next week.