[JL8Jeff]

Had the skiff out again after work yesterday and had a little bit of a wake up call. I was cruising along going up and down the river with some speed runs in the middle section when I suddenly noticed the water temp gauge was at 200 when it's normally around 150-160! So I shut it down right away to check and see if it threw the water pump belt but it was still on. I started it up again and you could hear the exhaust was louder so I knew there was no water going through the exhaust and shut it down again. I thought something might be blocking the water intake and reached back to the cavitation plate and sure enough there was a piece of wood/debris wedged in the intake pickup(the pickup is about the size of your thumb). I cleared it out and started back up and it cooled down right away. This is a good example of why you have gauges and why you should check them constantly.