well another story of my times while living in Togiak Alaska, in 1965 John And Barbara O,Hara vista volunteers move to togiak to work in the village for a year or maybe longer,they worked in programs to help the folks there in the village. i worked as store manger for togiak fisheries across the bay from togiak. we became friends with the o,haras and enjoyed many good times together, during the winter John propsed to me to organize a boy scout troop there in togiak which with his help i ended up with like thirty boy scouts, well this story is not about the scout troop but about one of my trials while living in togiak. one night in the spring after leaving from togiak school after having a scout meeting i headed back to my house at the cannery the weather was warming up and the ice had been also breaking up in the bayeach time after the tide came in seemslike less ice in the bay. at that time i really cannot remember if the tide had already been in and went back out, i do remember that the night was really nice and i was enjoying my ride back across the bay.just as i was reaching my side of the bay my snow machine started spurting and acting up finaley went dead about twenty yards from shore. i decided i would leave the machine untill morning suspected it to be out of gas or frozen gas line , which happens a lot in alaska.I walked the last one hundred yards to the house, thinking i would check the situation out come daylight . next morning i woke up to a suprise looking out the window at togiak bay the tide was high ice cakes were every where i went to look out the window toward the village where i had left the snow    machine the previous night .to my amazement and despaire the machine was gone i looked every where  i started looking with my scope i spotted the snow machine off the left of the cannery sitting on an ice cake floating out to sea, well i was really dumbfounded trying to figure out what i could do to save my snow machine . the decision i made almost coust my my life, there was a ten foot run around in the warehouse which was like five hundre yards fro wher i needed it to be i pulled thatboat with a five horse motor and gas can to where i could get started out in the bay. after starting the outboard i started out after the ice cake that had stole y snow machine, i had no idea what i was going to do but i knew i wasn<t going to lose my new polaris mustang snow machine without a fight. well putting along dodging ice in the bay i made it maybe one hundred yards when the evinrude decide it would stop also i was like still maybe like two hundred yards as araven flies before i reached the ice cake. i started using the oars then at last reached the ice cake, the tide was going out so the ice and the machine were heading for seattle maybe tokyo japan i got on the ice cake with the machine holding the rope fro the boat i pulled the boat up to the edge of the ice. thinking at that time if i placed the snow machine across the middle of the boat i could drive it back to shore. WRONG, i PULLED AND TUGED UNTILL I DID GET THE MACHINE ACROSS THE BOAT but that wasn,t going to last but a second i tied the snow machine to the boat with a rope that done the boat ,snow machine , boat otor just did a side flip and went to the bottom i still hsd the boat rope wrapped around my hand it was cutting the circulation off in my hands, i was determined not to lose every thing, here i was floating out to sea holding on to a rope that was cutting my hands off to save the snow machine and boat. save it for what i was floating out to sea and no one around to help. well needless to say i was beginning to worry. i heard a noise was that a out board motor that i heard or was i beginning to really lose control, it was an out board that i had heard looking back to y right i spotted a boat coming up the coast line close to shore it was JOHN moore and another had been out seal hunting that morning i waved to the they came over got me and pulled the boat and snow machine to shore. thank you GOD and the two seal hunters that saved my skin again, i will always be grateful to john moore and his hunting partner that decided to go seal hunting that morning, don,t know if you got any seal but you sure saved one scared GOSUK.