Disaster Strikes Again
Now alone and without their navigators, they continued. They decided it would be best to break the rest of their trip into four hour segments with Larry's River chosen as the next stop. Again the fog rolled in and the swells began. As they were about to drop anchor another calamity hit.
The engine shut down .
The anchor line was wound around the engine's
propeller and the houseboat was now headed stern first into 6 foot waves.
With water threatening to flood the motor, they radioed the coast guard and waited.
Totally exhausted, frustrated and feeling beaten, Millar laid on the floor and prayed.
What else was there to do? He listened and waited not only for the Coast Guard
vessel but the anticipated crash telling him the motor was gone.
But it didn't come....Instead Stumps