hey im glad to see such good people volunteer to help a poor guy out. maybe it will be alittle to bouncey in my boat. on that note back to business. phil, rebuild and sell if possible. i will check on that motor. he had said 10,000 at one point, but your better off with the 525. jeff , if you plan to go friday lmk asap. we could squeeze an extra day of chillin. call me this week and we can discuss. so it looks like saturday we can hit pussers at annapolis harbor or red eyes and sunday will be jellys for the kids. mark

Hey Mark , not sure what time on friday were heading out , depends on the gf and the weather , im not sure if we will hang for sunday yet , at this point its not looking good . but we shall see what it looks like weather wise by mid next week . Phil, good luck with your motor sure we will catch up with you sometime. thanks jeff

yes keep me posted. we were planning on jellys sunday. i knew you guys enjoyed that. i just want to get as much time on the water as possible. gonna be another long winter looking at the baby in the driveway. bill, looks like sunday has the best weather and tides in the delaware. we will be out for awhile.. mark

Hey Mark i will let you know mid next week about fri sat sun , would like to go back to jj . you right summer is quickly passing us by. hope the weather coops next weekend ,

yes, keep me posted jeff. been really busy here with the firewood and such. want to get a nice couple of runs in before it gets too cold. i usually start thinking about winterizing around the beginning of october. one month away almost. i hope to get out on the river tis sunday, weather permitting. mark

Hey Phil, just so you don't feel alone. I thrashed one of my engines this Sunday so looks like my season may be over. We're still going down this weekend, Boatless. Figure we'll drive to Jellies for Sat or Sun whichever day Mark is going to be there and just do the torist stuff for the rest of the weekend. Already paid for the room and more importantly already promised the wife and boys so I'm on the hook. Pulling the engine tomorrow, tearing it down on Wednesday. Looks to be a wrist pin, cracked piston or burned a hole in a piston. My guess is a combo wrist pin piston failure. Only 20-30 hours on it so hopefully maybe I can do a new piston and get her going again? Wishful thinking? Hows yours coming along? Any progress? Keep us posted, Bill.

what was the verdict bill?. we should tear those motors out and put a couple 300 x engines on that bad boy. run them *****es all day long pinned. i would have kurt, and only kurt or danny go over them both this winter. just get it done once and right. we are leaving sat am at 5. will be hitting waffle house around 7 am for the ritual breakfast. launching around 9 am. call me later today if possible. mark

thats too bad Bill. I havent really done anything with mine. I dont think that I will be doing anythign with it this summer. Not being able to afford a complete rebuild is holding me back. Well I could probably afford it, but with work the way it is right now, I am not comfortable dropping that kind of cash right now. 300x's would be the way to go for you man. You can run them at 7000rpm all day long with no problems.

Have a good time this weekend guys.
-phil

hey, it looks like we are doing the hap heli run saturday. sounds pretty cool. sunday will be jellys. everyone good with that ... mark

OK, turns out that #1&2 rod bearings spun. Nothing broken. Need to replace the 2 rods, they where really heated up. Crank looks like a polishing should do it or a .010 cut at the worst. Luckily I heard the noise and shut it down before something broke. I tore it all down yesterday. We're going down around noon on Sat. Spend the day checking out some land bound places. Sunday is good for JJ's. Bummer we'll be trucking it down but once we're there who cares. Should have the boat back running in 2 weeks or so maybe get a last trip down before the seasons over? The 300X's would be great but my pockets aren't that deep. All that re-rigging and extra components to switch over. At this point with this boat. I have some big decisions to make over this winter. Goal now is just to get it running again and refill my pockets for the next stage whatever that is? Hey,what's the heli run?