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horizon
and boats
crossing
our
bow
had
switched
on
their running lights.
The
gathering darkness
was adding
yet
another problem,
I didn't
want to
dock
the houseboat in the
dark. Even
in daylight,
maneuvering
this big tub
at slow
speed called
for plenty
of en-
gine reversing
and bursts
of
power
to
keep it from
splintering the dock.
"Do
not
turn me
over to any
other
station. I'd like
you to
make
a
collect
call for me."
I
shot those
words
at the
young
operator with the
sting
and
authority
of an army drill sergeant.
It
was
my
only
hope. I must have
shook
up the
kid because he
came back on, no
longer
sounding
like
a
NASA
space
communicator. I assured him
several
times that a long-
distance telephone
call placed collect would
cost
him no-
thing.
"I have
Jim
on
the line. He
says
try
the lift pump." A
wave of
excitement
flooded
over the houseboat. The
young
man
had raised Jim, the
boat's
owner, on the landline and the first
instructions
were coming through.
"Where's
the lift pump ?" I
asked.
Questions and answers went back
and
forth
over our
primitive
phone patch.
Jim, the
owner, would say something
to the
young man
on the phone, and
the
information
was relayed to me via
CB radio.
It
worked well,
except
for
the
tense moments
when Jim and the
young
man
spoke
to
each other on the
landline
and
no carrier
filled
the air. I
grew
apprehensive
at the possibility
of
some
other spoiler getting
on
the
open channel and jamming
us. To
prevent it, I
turned
on
my
carrier dur-
ing
the
pauses and made
blind an-
nouncements
about
emergency
communications in
progress. It kept
the
channel clear.
In the
stern
of
the
boat, hatches
were raised to
expose the
two dead
Volvo
diesels. Following
Jim's CB-
sent
directions,
we
rammed
the lift
pump
up
and down by foot until it
forced
fuel into the
starved
engines.
I
turned
the starter
key and watched the
tachometer. It
bounced
crazily as the
engine fired,
but dropped back
to
zero. I gripped
the CB mike,
shot
my
next question
at Jim. My
words
raced
over water by
radio
for
a dozen miles,
were repeated
by the
young CB
operator
on
the
phone, then travelled
by landline
over
60 miles
to
Jim's
home.
"Keep
pumping while the engine
is
turning,"
Jim said.
He
was
right;
the
houseboat
shuddered,
made
several
explosive sounds then throbbed
with
NOVEMBER 1974
the
steady
power
of
its 310 horses.
"Up anchor,"
I
shouted,
and within
minutes the houseboat
melted
into the
endless
stream of other
boats
heading
up the
channel
to a safe
landing.
Later
that night
I learned
what
killed
the
engines.
Fifty
gallons
were
in
the
fuel tank but this boat
had
a quirk;
when
the tank was about a quarter
full,
the fuel line
would
gobble air and
not
feed unless the passengers
stood at
the stern.
Those lift pumps purged
the
trapped air
in the lines
to
get
the
fuel
flowing
again
and, with
the crew
herded
on
the
stern,
the engines
ran
perfectly.
I
wanted
to thank
the
anonymous
young operator.
He had done an excel-
lent
job of extricating
us
from
a
tight
situation, especially when
he switched
us away
from the
QRM.
But I
can't ex-
press much
gratitude because
he has
no call,
no license and no CB status.
He legally doesn't exist.
The second hero
of
this adventure
is
CB
itself.
Our
lives were not
in im-
mediate danger, but each
passing
minute increased the risk
from
scores
of
other
craft
that
careened
down the
narrow channel
in the dimming twi-
light.
CB,
in fact, came through when
about a
half -dozen
other
resources
failed. First, it
outdid
that vigilante
who was
first to arrive
on
the scene.
She was a well-
meaning Good
Samari-
tan, but she couldn't
provide
our
most
immediate need -a tow into
port.
Then there's the U.S. Coast Guard and
its
auxiliary.
Despite their heroic work
in
boating areas, our dilemma
held too
low
a priority.
Next, the
marine
tele-
phone
system
-it, too, was seriously
overloaded.
Then there
was
harbor
police, but
the men in blue never
materialized. This is
one
happy in-
stance where CB
outdid
them all! Q
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need
a replacement part.
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in
Hong
Kong."
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