Well, what was suppoesd to be a great day turned out terrible! Beautiful weather, sunny, 10-15kt wind, 2-4 seas. Headed down nice and early to do a "quick" change-out of the CTL for my new Dutchman (the 1st one was too short). That took 3 1/2 hours. Friends were running late, so no big deal. Finally ready to go, started the engine, ran it for a while, shut her down to grab lunch. Came back....no start! Pulled the plugs and fired the engine to clear the flooding. She started up fine....then boom...blew out my exhaust! Water everywhere!!!! I guess it could have been worse, I could have been underway! Excellent weather ahead for the weekend....I'll be pulling a manifold!!! I'm sure it will take an exponential amount of time longer that it should!! I should stock up on some more Captain and add some tunes to the iPod. Ahhh, oh well. I guess it could be worse! I could be at work!!!!!!!!!! Jack Manning s/v Victim of Fate Atlantic City, NJ
hope you get sailing r.w.landau