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	Name:	Nancy Christine II -
	Subject:	Very interesting thing happened today
	Date:	4/17/2010 8:12:50 PM

But it's all my fault. The NC2 has a old 1976 Evinrude 135 on her. I keep her tuned and listen by ear but I have no engine interments hooked up. So I never saw the engine temp coming up. By time I felt it the damage was done but the culprit made it decisive and unfix able on the water. And it was something I had never seen happen before.

I put in at Wind Creek today as I always do. I was rounding the light house and I saw steam coming from the pee holes. I thought What the Heck??? I just put that pump in the other week. I lift the drive and I somehow snagged a trash bag in the water had warped around my drive. This led to a dry pump, then a burnt water pump. I needed to get to shore for mine and my dads safety. I would let the boat sink if need be, but my dad is my priority in the boat and on the water. The wind was blowing us away from land and populated land at that. SO, I voluntarily blew a head gasket "Cooed it" to get to shore and make sure my dad would be safe and not adrift.

Long story short.

Watch for plastic jelly fish bags in the lake looking to snag your out drive. All ended up well, we made it home after some mechanical wizardy and the grace of God. I have milled the head and just need a impeller and a gasket and all is as it was.

Just a strange story that you cant make up I wanted to share with you all. Talk about a blind side-er.

Wind Creek State Park

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