When our bodies finally had enough surfing we gathered all our camping gear and said our good byes.  We headed up the river to grab some extra fuel for the journey until we ran into a bit of a bump-in-the-road.  Preoccupied by preparing everything to leave we forgot one crucial thing, the power line that crossed the river. Before we had taken down the mast when we headed up the river but this time we, well, I guess we forgot to. Before I  knew it I was glued to the metal steering wheel with an intense jolt that put my body in a seizure. Through my stuttered cry for help Chad came immediately and gave his best linebacker shove to find out that I wasn’t budging and he began receive a shock through my body. All I could think was to shut down the power of the boat. At the time we both didn’t know quite what was going on until Chad saw the mast against the power line with sparks flying off every metal part of the boat. What seemed like hours, after a few seconds Chad was able to put the gear and reverse and I was able to turn the key off. By some miracle the intense jolting stopped, Chad yelled “ jump in the water” and we were swimming in the water beside the boat with much relief.  Our miracle was the current of the river was heading out to sea away from the power-line. If the current was heading the other way we would have been fried chicken. We returned to the beach to check for damage. I felt like I was just whacked by a bunch of Italian mobsters with a bat, but surprisingly the boat only had some burnt marks and it didn’t even phase our electronics. We found that our dinghy/life raft was charred on all four corners. This dinghy has been a nuisance the whole trip and we believe it has finally met its maker. Besides being a huge wake-up call from this experience Chad and I thought we might be able to gain something else. We are considering applying for the Worlds Darwin Awards. We figure if we keep doing the stupid things we are doing we might have a chance at taking that award. Keep watching our next updates for the next Darwin award experience.