*****Now fir the rest of the story*****

Seems we were just past the half way mark and had succesfully negotiated some narrow channels with all 47 feet of P.B.'s 1970 Cris Craft and were headed purdy much into the north end of the bay with our destination on the other side... I had been the wheel-man fir the last hour or so and holding a 260 compass reading purdy well when it was time to make that last calculation and come up with a new heading to hit our target on the other side of the bay...

P.B. had the chart open and was using the official Wes Ginny instrument (a 12 inch long plastic wire bundlin' strap) on the chart as a straight edge to figure the new heading... I was kinda holdin' the wheel with my left leg while lookin' at the chart with him when, without notice, the port side engine died!!! O-oh... Hmmmmmm? And all that...

Now ya'll remember the "hair brush story"... Well, this is the new version as P.B. said I must have backed into the dash an accidently flipped the breaker which would have killed it... Well, the dash is resessed a couple inches so that unless ya' gotta a bigass tumor stickin' outt yer back or you grew a hand outta it that it's not all the possible but...

Now that port side engine was the one with the dragging starter motor that morning and one a starter motor gets it in it's little starter motor mind to slack then that about all it's ever gonna do again so the repeated attempts to refire the engine were futile so....

Here P.B. and poor ol' hillbilly were just figuring our heading to cross the bay with one losuy engine trying to push 47 feet of 40 year old boat... Ya'll with me so far??? Good...