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So, Tustumena lake. What a beautiful day! As we were launching a guy came up to look at the boat. Not unusual. Except he pointed out that he had spent many, many hours on her. We swamped stories of fires and taking on water. He owns a machine shop and been her former mechanic as well as a friend of the former owner. He told me that they never went out on the ocean without a problem. Once they had to paddle in 9 miles when the motor died out of Deep Creek. The boat went through motor after motor (sound familiar?). The hose that caught fire this May, causing so much panic, had done the same thing with the previous owner. He told me that this boat was "jinxed", a term I have screamed at it many, many times. But. He also told the boat had been up the mighty Yukon river. Dead moose have been on this boat. It is has caught so many halibut that they needed an "assembly line". He had slept on board and seemed to have fond memories of her. Today, for the record, was the second time we went out without any problems at all. He looked at the new design and seemed to think that would work. Let's hope. We visited the cabin on Caribou Island and went all the way around the island.

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