| Just plain old fashioned ordinary hovering. | |||
| Very typical autumn day: Sun shine and about 15C (59F). Hardly any wind, but some. Forecast was good weather for weekend. | |||
| Day started foggy, but by the time we were ready to take off fog was all gone. | |||
| Two and one small dog onboard we left to take a cruise on the bay. Unfortunately engine stopped just couple of hundreds of meters from hoverport. I had a great difficulties of getting it running again, but when i did there wasn't any problems. I thought of water in the ignition system and fuel pump malfunction, but after taking a look under the hood they both seemed to be working. | |||
| But after experiencing something like this i didn't want to go too far, just in case. There wasn't too many boaters out there to lend us a hand if we got in trouble. We did a short spin on bay and i decided to park the craft on a rocky island just to see if it was possible. | |||
| Water being so high this time of year there wasn't really nothing to it. I parked the craft and stepped out. In no time i heard a familiar outboard somewhere near us. But had to take my binoculars to actually see it. My father-in-law and mother-in-law had just finished checking the fishing nets and i could see them heading our direction in their yellow rain coats assisted by small Yamaha 5hp. | |||
| We talked with them a while and then we both left back. We had some difficulties getting away since craft was sitting on rather round spot allowing great deal of air leak. But we got on our way with more throttle and rocking the craft. | |||
| On our way back we bumped into familiar swan family. On a narrow section of river heading back to hoverport i had to crawl behind them since they showed no intention to let us pass. | |||
| After getting back i did check the engine, but still couldn't find anything wrong and did many solo test drives. Everything was just fine. | |||
| Since there wasn't anything wrong with it i decided to drive upstream and possibly do white water hovering. I got under two bridges, but at the third one current was so strong and water so high that i could pull the craft under the bridge. So i drove back to hoverport, without any problems this time. | |||