I have to admit that I probably did a crappy job of winterizing last fall (although not any different than in the previous 5 years that I've had the boat) and now I'm paying the price. I have a water leak on my '78 Mercruiser 140 hp. I had it running on muffs for only a short time last weekend...
Mercruiser 140 (sn 4514670) and Model I sterndrive (sn 4797930) on 1978 17 ft Sylvan trihull runabout. Was out on the WI River several weeks ago and strayed from the nav channel, ran onto a sand bar. Stupidly, I threw it into reverse and tried to power it off the sand. After several tries I gave...
