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So when my dad went to get his boat out of storage, it turned out the motor woasn't working because they hadn't stored it properly. The storage place was suppoed to winterize the engine, remove it from the boat (it's an outboard), and store it inside for the winter. But they left it out in the cold. This would have been bad enough, but it so happens that wasps infested the boat, building a nest inside much of the motor. It seems that in the autumn rains the nest absorbed some water, and in the winter the water froze, and expanded... and the result was a whole lotta wasp's nest (say it ten times fast) gumming up the works. They also got into the cabin and built another nest in the drainage pipe from the sink. (Surely there must be a special naval term for a kitchen sink? Like "head" for the bathroom? I have to imagine, that if you're in the middle of an ocean voyage, battling a fierce storm, you would at all costs want to avoid the word "sink".) Those wasps are reminding me of those breaking-and-entering-and-partying teenagers. Next we'll find out that they put the boat in the water and sailed up to the Hudson River. Why, I bet those wasps had... had... sex! On my dad's boat! Oh, the nerve. Well, we treated those wily wasps the way you always treat unruly rapscallions of a lower social order... we blasted them with water from a hose.