Thanks for all the comments and good wishes! My wife Admiral Arden has also enjoyed your comments but I only log on to the site when we have good wifi, so she would prefer that you sign up on the blog site with your email and post comments there so she can see them easier.
Regarding the “Damn Dingy” episode, all is well with the dingy motor. Call it user error if you will . . . The Nissan 15 hp motor uses the same type of connector that the old Chrysler outboards used with a sliding outer ring that locks the connector on to the male fitting on the motor. The sliding ring is very hard to move and evidently didn’t lock onto the fitting, so after a couple hundred yards the motor basically ran out of gas. I reconnected and pumped the bulb, but when it didn’t fire up after several pulls, I made the mistake of pulling out the choke! I had forgotten how easy it is to flood these old 2-strokes, and once you do that it can take a lot of cranking to clear out the excess fuel! It often helps to just pull the plugs and spin the motor over with WOT to clear it, but I discovered we didn’t even have a plug wrench on the dingy! (Since corrected!) We were upwind of the boat, so I decided it was easier to row back. Once we got back to the boat I got it started again and it ran fine, but it was almost 7 pm so we aborted the planned shore excursion since we had planned to stay in a marina the next night.
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