This is going real well...no pissing matches yet.
I'm off to Newfoundland for a week so will not have regular internet access...
....but before I go here is another one.
I was stuck all by myself on a remote lake in northern Quebec many moons ago with a Beech 18 on floats and a fu.ked starter.
I managed to start it with a rope....
So churn that one around and figure out how I did it.