Lake of the woods adventures part 2: the crestliner strikes back

We all got up at 4 am on saturday. Yes you read correctly. Half conscious, I gathered my poles and tackle and made my way down to the dock. It was still very dark out. We had 3 boats between 9 people so we split into 3 3-man teams and departed. My boat was the last to leave. Our resort was situated back in a bay so there was about a 10 minute boat ride to reach the actual lake front. My boat (which was a crestliner) got about half way when we started running into problems. The boat suddenly shut off by itself and the motor came up out of the water spontaneously. We were like wtf? So we put the motor back in and started on our way again, and it happened about 5 minutes later. So we put the motor back in once again and tried to keep going. The motor died like 5 more times before we decided to head back. Before doing so, we put the anchor in the water and watched the sun come up. It was beautiful. We barely made it back to the dock. Relieved, but frustrated; we returned to the campsite. We had to wait a couple hours for the lodge to open up so someone could look at our boat. To waste the time we made a good meal of brats and hashbrowns to eat up before we went out again. Eventually someone fixed our boat and we got on our way. I was excited to finally see the lake and all of it's glory. As we came out of the bay I was shocked at first glance when I saw the sheer size of the massive body of water. You can't even see across it. After snapping a couple pics we began to fish. We fished for about 3 hours but with little luck. We retired for the rest of the afternoon and met the rest of our group at our campsite. We filleted some of the fish the other boats caught (including a 26 inch walleye and a 28 inch northern) and we ate them up for dinner. We all went out again in the evening. We all got in new groups and went off into the lake once again. Me and my new group ended up getting the crestliner stuck in the mud in a shallow zone of the bay. We had to actually get into the frigid water and pull the motor out of the muck, it was miserable. It was worth it though because we stopped at a state park beach on a pier and watched the sun go down. It was one of the most incredible sights I have ever seen. The sky was different shades of red, orange, purple, and blue. The water complimented this scene, it really made me appreciate the beauty of life. After this astonishing scene we boated back into our dock and returned to our site. We enjoyed another fire and stargazed. The stars up there are unbelievably bright and you can make out many constellations. Most of the group retired pretty early but me and 2 other friends stayed up very late discussing the concept of life and human behavior. It was very enlightening hearing my buddy's points of view. We eventually retired to our tents so we could get up early enough to pack up and leave at a relatively early hour. All in all it was a great trip. It really brought me closer to my friends and mother nature. We all agreed we would do it again soon.