i have acces to a dock on my favorite salmon river one weekend i decided to invite a buddy over to fish e would bring his own boat (both of us had john boats with older motors) i went down early one morning and met them at the launch i fished untill i saw them and turned on my motor to go see what they were up to it wouldnt go into gear im cussing at the thing and kicking at it tell them to meet me back at the house. i rowed about a mile against the tide and made it back an hour later to find out that they had motor trouble to they couldnt start theres we take a look at my motor to find my shere pin was broken we fixed that and took off for an afternoon of fishless fishing we come back and next morning head out about 3 miles down the river to were the fish were supposed to be...... we finaly ran out of eggs and i pull the cord to get the motor started and it falls off into my hand again i row this time three miles (thank God it was with the tide) we get there and my buddie sayes he will take my motor home wal i leave my boat i start undoing the vise and it comes off in my hand my buddie and i look at eachother and start cracking up all that motor trouble in one weekend both of our motors worked fine the weekend before just goes to say that evryone gets a little bad luck every oncer in a while....