I am insane. No really. But most of my friends know this and would also know that I can be quite fearless as well. Two things that often don't make a good combination. This of course has an interesting effect when you are sailing in that I seem to enjoy the leaping out of the water and healing over 45 deg in a big boat stuff that you can get on a blistery day out on the water. Loads of great exciting fun and endless fear from many of my landlubbing friends who just don't understand that. My biggest handicap comes from the fearless thing. Why do I bring this up? Well.... I think the engine may be dead for good this time at least dead enough that I really am tired of it. I haven't had anyone look at it yet but yesterday's periodic engine test didn't go well. It started to make a funny noise 10 minutes into me gently holding it at around 1000 rpm, not all that high. High would be around 5000 or more, and it never got higher than 1500 or so. 15k is where the alternator allegedly comes on and the batteries are supposed to start charging. I have yet to ever see evidence of that either, another reason for me to hate this engine. And I had just pored in an extra quart of oil, checked the batteries and everything before I turned the thing on. It's old, problematic, polluting and hard to work on and expensive to replace. When it did this, it belched out a good sized puff of white smoke and I promptly shoved the throttle down and shut it off. I was numb, just plain numb. I shut it all down and went down inside the cabin and tried to calm down. This morning I woke up mad. Mad as a hatter and I decided that I had two choices, really three, but if you want to get really technical I always have to include in this case the fourth choice, that being to do nothing. I always include that, being mad and all ya know. First choice is to consider a new engine. That would be expensive. I hate that choice, nothing in this worl [...]
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