Lost # 6 cylinder today

[turbinedoctor]

Well my old faithful finaly let me down today. The family and I put out of Kiptopeake and started heading for the fouth island to do a little fishing, but just as we got to within about a half mile, it started with a slapping sound. I quickly shut it down and checked under the hood but every thing looked good. When started again it did not want to idle and ran rough. Not knowing exactly what was wrong I shut it down and started trying to figure out how to get back to the landing.

Remembering I am a Boat US member I decided to give them a call. They were there with in 45 minutes and started the tow of shame. I just came in from looking into the problem and found that the #6 spark plug had been flattened and the piston is pitted and abused. Looks like a rebuild, used motor or new motor.

Does anyone have experience rebuilding inline 6 cylinders?