AHHHHHH.....boats! Or should I say AUGHHH! June 13th weekend, we headed out to the lake,and our friend Alan came out in his motorhome. Once we were set up at the campground, we headed to dinner, then the next day, out to the lake on the big boat.

One of the two engines had some kind of coil or module problem, but we could still go out on the one engine. We went to the popular hang out, called Hell's Gate, and dropped anchor. We jumped into the water, and in a few minutes, noticed that the boat was leaving........Possum Kingdom is a rock bottomed lake and pretty impossible to get an anchor hooked, as opposed to mud. So.....load back up and move to another spot to drop anchor. Well....after 3 times!!!!!! we finally got it to catch. We swam most of the afternoon, and while Alan was looking around at the engines (as guys do) he asked Jimmy where the prop shaft was. Jimmy said " It's right.....there...." Yep, you guessed it....missing. It had slid backwards due to the water pushing on the "non-moving" prop when we only used one engine! Now, we decide that we need to ease back home and pray we don't lose that prop shaft.

Easier said than done...NOW the anchor won't pull up! We tried driving forward, backward, sideways....slowly, faster, Jimmy pulling on the rope and wrapping it around the cleats on the boat each time. After about 45 minutes and going around in circles (and half the people in the lake watching) Jimmy was on the nose of the boat, Alan was driving and I was sitting in the back.

POW! the nose of the boat went up about 3 feet in the air....the rope broke and the anchor is in the bottom of the lake!

So....here we are, one engine, prop shaft almost fallen out and no anchor....so we headed home. The wind was pretty bad, so when we got to our boat slip. it was quite interesting, backing in. We went back out and dropped a small anchor with a float tied to it, so that the scuba divers that we asked....could possibly retrieve our big anchor.......when they went to get it....someone stole the float!!! People!!