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Jeff wrote:
I never had a chain problem, but in a similar vein, I had both the
throttle cable and the shift cable break on the same day when 16 years
old. The shift cable broke when leaving P'town, but we forged on to
Boston regardless. The throttle cable broke as we pulled into the
slip - my wife shifted to reverse at the transmission, burning her
hand, I goosed the throttle to stop the boat, but the cable broke
leaving us with full throttle, backing out of the slip. And, there
was a 2 knot current leading to a dead end in the fairway, and it was
just after sunset. Fortunately, it was a liveaboard marina, and our
calls attracted a large crowd which saved the day.

We had that happen on a Moorings charter in BVI years ago. I sent one
of the crew below with an oven mit. g


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