beerman
Member
I think I might have screwed up my renaming ceremony last weekend. I think i didn't spend enough on the champagne. Yesterday I was taking my boat out to the local relaxation area about 4 miles from our marina. We jumped up on plane just like normal and were about 2 miles out when I started to lose power. We were cruising at 30mph and then dropped to 27mph. I pushed the throttle all the way forward and nothing more happened. I immediately turned back toward the marina and was wondering if the wind had picked up that much but it had not. I put the throttle in neutral and popped the hatch to look at the motor. It felt like it had a small miss. Shut the hatch and continued further toward the marina. I stopped and opened the hatch again and still everything seemed ok. I thoght maybe I got something wrapped around the prop so I shut off the engine(stupid I know know) and tried to start it up. It cranked hard but finally started. We continued toward the marina. The whole time the temp never went above 172 were it always is and the oil pressure stayed the same we just couldn't get the boat above 27mph and about 3300rpm. I slowed down again and noticed some oil on the top side of the motor then shortley the oil pressure dropped and I shut everything down. We were about 1/4 mile from the marina and thanks to the dockhands they came out with a pontoon and pulled us back to our slip. We had a mobile marine come buy 2 hours later to tell us the motot was shot, camshaft or dropped valves. The motor started for him but was not running on the back 2 cylinders. I checked the dist. cap while I was waiting for him and it was definitely corroded. He said the oil was spraying out of the dipstick because of the excess pressure from a bad piston? There was no oil on the bottom of the pan but seemed to be on top on the starboard ,forward of the engine.
