my dad jsut bought an 18 foot cat. We worked for two whole days preparing this brand new boat to take it to a local lake, with a max depthof osmething like 5 feet. Fire extinguishers (two of them) installed, two radios installed (boat had one, but we completely redid their installation), lights and extra electronics panel installed. They wired the GPS wire that send info to the radios wrong, so we rewired that and sent the signal to both radios. We found out that they miswired some bilgepumps too. When 5 miles out inthe gulf the next day, we came up to a VERY small boat (maybe 8-10 feet, a little bit bigger than a gnue, with maybe a 15 horse engine?) that had run out of gas. 5 people, none had lifevests. They had no good line for towing, no anchor, no engine. They stern light was broken, and I don't recall seeing any bow lights. no survival gear at all, no radio, no gps. The one thing they had that we didn't was a cooler with fish in it. FIVE MILES OUT!! We were heading the opposite way, but we hailed another ship heading in to tow them in. It was ridiculous, it really was. Especially since I had spent the previous two days, one of them being turkey day, hauling butt to get this new boat ready for the water. We would have given them gas, but we had no way to do it, this outboard doesn't let the fuel line disconnect like our other smaller boat, we found out.
