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A quick update on Kintyre. I was doing some office work down on the dock today because it was absolutely beautiful. After working on this emergency plan for the island for two hours, I decided to take a quick break and fire up the motor again. I climbed down in the bilge to hook up my temporary fuel line, when all of a sudden I feel my Treo 650 cell phone (read- expensive palmpilot phone) fall out of my shirt pocket, fall through the engine like a Plinko game, and land in the oil pan (mind you full of oily water) 2 feet below. After a few expletives I desperately tried to reach it without success. Of course, I also couldn’t see it below the motor.
20 minutes later after pumping out the oily water, I could see the phone. When I lifed it out the orange service light was still blinking. 20 seconds later it was not.
I did my best to dry it out for a couple hours– plugged it in– no go. More expletives.
Fortunately I had insurance on the phone so a replacement is only costing me 50 dollar deductible versus 499.99 for a new one.
Lesson learned today…