Engine Trouble Chapter 8

Check out the link to a Youtube clip showing one of these outboard motors below.SeveralSeveral days laterlater the familyfamily rowedrowed up the riverriver again.again. The man at the serviceservice stationstation was on his wharf to meet them, and he handedhanded the motor down to Mr Gale, who screweded it ontoonto the back of the boat. Then he took the startinging rope and wound it round the flywheelflywheel and “prrrtt" awayaway went the little boat more quicklyquickly than ever before. At the secondsecond bend in the river Mr Gale sloweded the motor, turneded the boat towardstowards Matakana and stoppedstopped at the wharf. “You haveYou’ve    done a fine job. I thought you did notdidn’t    know anythinganything aboutabout these motors.”

“I know a lot more about them now,” chuckledchuckled the garagegarage man. “Let me know if she gives you any more trouble.”trouble.”   

Mr Gale paid the man and thankedthanked him. He startedstarted the motor and “prrrtt” away they went down the river, and very soon they were home.

“But I still like to row sometimes,”sometimes,” Mia said, and Ricki and Tim said, “So do I.”

“It was becausebecause we were rowingrowing that we saw all those crabs,” said Tim. “If the motor had been going, we wouldwe’d        nevernever have knownknown that crabs live in riverbanks.”riverbanks.”  

Youtube clip of a British Seagull outboard motor

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