BeaufortTJustice
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2009
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I hope everyone had a nice holiday...
My thought for today that I debate in sharing with you all:
in the psychiatric world, hypochondriac describes someone who constantly believes that their benign symptoms, sometimes imagined, are indicative of very serious, underlying disease...
What is this called in the boating world? I think I have it whatever it is. I fired up the girl today in the driveway (yes, on muffs), and although the logical part of my brain sensed nothing unusual, the imaginative part was flashing through the 1000's of posts I have read here and all the possible sounds, smells, vibrations, etc. that others have put into words here combined with all the horror stories of cracked blocks and manifolds, blown head gaskets, fried impellers and water pumps, etc. I could almost see water pouring out of a crack in the block, oil spraying everywhere, and BOOM! the whole boat explodes...then back to reality.
This forum is wonderful for help when one has a problem, but you know you've been reading it too much when you're boat is running great and you still can't help but "imagine" something is wrong...
I guess it provides good motivation to keep up on the preventative maintenance...
Anybody else have this affliction? Maybe I'll start a support group if we can figure out a name for it.
My thought for today that I debate in sharing with you all:
in the psychiatric world, hypochondriac describes someone who constantly believes that their benign symptoms, sometimes imagined, are indicative of very serious, underlying disease...
What is this called in the boating world? I think I have it whatever it is. I fired up the girl today in the driveway (yes, on muffs), and although the logical part of my brain sensed nothing unusual, the imaginative part was flashing through the 1000's of posts I have read here and all the possible sounds, smells, vibrations, etc. that others have put into words here combined with all the horror stories of cracked blocks and manifolds, blown head gaskets, fried impellers and water pumps, etc. I could almost see water pouring out of a crack in the block, oil spraying everywhere, and BOOM! the whole boat explodes...then back to reality.
This forum is wonderful for help when one has a problem, but you know you've been reading it too much when you're boat is running great and you still can't help but "imagine" something is wrong...
I guess it provides good motivation to keep up on the preventative maintenance...
Anybody else have this affliction? Maybe I'll start a support group if we can figure out a name for it.
