You may be wondering what happened next with our boat engine rebuild. In the last blog we'd had the engine lifted back into the boat and we'd given it a test run. It hadn't gone well. It had started, which was excellent, but the revs were out of control. We were able to stop it, but the situation wasn't good.

Once our emotions had settled, we'd taken a look at the engine and saw that the stop lever was in the wrong position. We suspected that a tangle between the engine stop lever and the throttle control was the problem. But, were we able to untangle the levers? And if so, did the engine start and run correctly? Plus why do we feel like we've caught a dose of the commentator's curse?

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