Fuel Lady is NOT On The Christmas Card List

It turns out that at the same time we were beginning to deal with our overheating problem, we were beginning to deal with a contaminated fuel problem.  We had about 20 minutes of the engine surging before putting in to deal with our overheating problem.
This was at Southport, NC near Wilmington. 

We had purchased fuel just south of there.  We have since changed water separator/fuel filters three times and we are not yet completely free of the trouble. 

In Surf City, we were at a marina that was across the street from an all night fishing and boating store.  (How cool is that!)  I went in and gave them the Wix (brand) filter part number and they gave me two $30 filters.  We got back to the boat and found that they were not compatible.  I went back to the store to find that they had no alternative.  But I'm a lucky shopper and I found a cross reference to a third brand that claimed to be compatible to the $30 filter.  It was perfect.  Plus it only cost $7.

There I made a mistake.  I only bought two of them.  I should have bought out the store.

Thus we ended our February 12th having made only 50 miles again.

And the weather forecast was for a significant snowfall over night.