When we brought the Whaler in last Saturday to have the motor removed, winterized, and stored, Glenn cast eyes askance at it and reeled off some problems, quite a few, in fact. Then his father Howie came out, and we made the decision to part with the old beast. It certainly didn't owe us anything. When the Whaler was stolen in 1995 and then abandoned, upside down, the motor was submerged for quite a while. But Howie got it running, and it has run each season since, though not without some balkiness here and there. Since we use it mainly as a tender for
Autumn now, it makes sense to brin g out the old 4 HP Johnson, which Grandma can start, to get us back and forth to the larger craft. Still, it was hard to say goodbye to something that treated us so well for so long.
Of course, Howie showed us a brand-new 25 HP eTec motor. When I asked the cost, he said, "Oh, five or six... that's thousand, you know." Gulp.
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