Eric, thanks....sounds like it must've been in a bay off the main lake since that's all that's between Rock & Ponderosa.

You got a lot of courage with all the traffic that was out there on Saturday!

On your motor trouble, someone else mentioned the stator as a possible problem. I'm no mechanic either, but from what I know, the stator gone bad would cause your cranking battery to not charge and eventually it would draw down to nothing.