pdxsearay
Member
- Jun 4, 2020
- 89
- Boat Info
- 2005 Sea Ray 185 Sport
- Engines
- 4.3 merc
Took some family out for a cruise yesterday and after about two hours of constant cruising we pulled into the area near the dock. Boat was idling for a couple minutes while we waited for our turn, then it died. When I say that, I mean everything was totally gone. Zero power whatsoever. Fan, horn, nothing.
Fortunately I have a couple of paddles on board so we were able to paddle toward the dock and tie up.
while I was up getting the truck in the trailer, my family told me that they heard the fan kick back on and so they tried to start it and it fired right up again. This was maybe 3 to 5 minutes after it died.
battery is slightly more than one year old. But it doesn’t seem like it’s the battery given that it came back.
Any ideas? is it just a flaky connection somewhere? This has never happened before.
One potentially mitigating factor is that I live in Portland Oregon and we have had bat shit crazy heat (115 degrees) recently. The boat had all of its covers on but it was outside for a couple of days during that.
No idea whether that would play any kind of a role.
Thank you for the help!
Fortunately I have a couple of paddles on board so we were able to paddle toward the dock and tie up.
while I was up getting the truck in the trailer, my family told me that they heard the fan kick back on and so they tried to start it and it fired right up again. This was maybe 3 to 5 minutes after it died.
battery is slightly more than one year old. But it doesn’t seem like it’s the battery given that it came back.
Any ideas? is it just a flaky connection somewhere? This has never happened before.
One potentially mitigating factor is that I live in Portland Oregon and we have had bat shit crazy heat (115 degrees) recently. The boat had all of its covers on but it was outside for a couple of days during that.
No idea whether that would play any kind of a role.
Thank you for the help!