Well, this is boating related...On the way to Clear Lake to get the Carver 30 ready to come to Pensacola, we lost the brakes on the motorhome in the rain on Memorial day. On the extension of the trip to Calif, we lost the Transmission in Van Horn Texas.--on 9/9 and were ready to go on the road on 9/11. About a month later, as we returned to Texas to pick up the boat, the drive shafts fell out of the motorhome, rupturing the fuel lines (fortunately I immediately turned off the ignition--and fuel pump). It took 3 hours to get a tow truck to finally get us to some place which could repair the motorhome. We arrived in Clear Lake via our dinghy car (a 1987 Dodge Colt, with three dogs, my 6'4" son, wife, one change of clothes and all of the food out of the motor home) to find that the boat was not finished--it had been on the hard for five weeks. In fact it was just being launched. The bow thruster was too far aft, a number of things were not done. The auto pilot was not completed. It rained hard during the next week and the temperature dropped to 40 degrees the first night. There was no reverse cycle on the AC unit, so after a cold night we were lined up at K mart to buy sweats and a heater the next morning. We had the engine worked on--three times as much cost as estimated (but that is par). Then the engine would not go to WOT--they forgot to put some piece into the turbo! I had the fuel polished, but the engine would still stall at 80% throttle. Diagnosis was old fuel, so we set off, with half a tank of old fuel. After it was burned off, the engine ran like a top! That first afternoon, my wife called on the cell phone and had blown an inside dual on the motorhome. The only other problem was wrapping a 10' x 20' piece of plastic sheeting on the prop as we were going into the industrial locks at New Orleans--but got quick hauled several hours later. We stayed only one night at a dock--the Casino Magic at Bay St. Louis. We arrived at dusk and no one told us that the dock did not connect to the land!--so we had to dinghy in to dinner etc. The last night we tried to get into Fort Morgan Marina--in Mobile Bay--but the management advised against it, because of shoaling we would not be able to get out in the morning. So we anchored in Mobile bay after dark--and rocked and rolled all night. I am aware of a couple of "worse adventures" but I don't know if the skippers fess up--or should I tell? Regards to all! Bob Austin, 30 foot single diesel aft cabin Carver Pensacola, FL.