The Perfect Storm

Reflecting on yesterday an number of events came together to form a perfect storm.

One year of research, budgeting, and saving in pursuit of the proper balance between pay vs. performance in a fish finder.

The anxious anticipation of fish finder installation after 5 unsuccessful purchase attempts.

The initial delay of "it will be next week before we can get to that". That's what Larry said when I towed the boat out Monday evening the 12th, for the fish finder install (missing a weekend of good weather).

Receiving a call Tuesday morning the 13th at 8:10am that the install was complete one week ahead of schedule. And the disappointment knowing the boat would go unused all week.

Culminating in deep disappointment Saturday morning the 17th when the boat now with fish finder installed at the console, it's previously rock solid engine will not start ! At that point, even though the transducer was in the water, I did not turn on the fish finder.

Driving away from the lake realizing at least one great day of fishing ( and use of the fish finder ) was lost. It turned out to be two days nice enough to fish....

To add insult to injury, Monday morning the 19th they say "there's a real problem with the engine". But we did not find it last night. We'll look at it again tomorrow.

Tuesday morning the 20th, they say we did not work on your boat because it rained last night. The next chance the mechanic will have to work on it will be Wednesday evening.