Only Yellow Easter Eggs for the Cain house next year

What does this have to do with concussion or obesity.....absolutely nothing. It really has nothing to do with Easter either. What happened is I used all my wife's bottles of food coloring, except yellow, in an effort to find the leak in my ski boat. My skiing partner and I got the boat going about a couple weeks ago and noticed that after each outing we seemingly had more water in the bilge than would be expected. This really came to confront us last weekend when my daughter and her boyfriend joined us at the lake and we started out accelerating away from the dock and you could see water welling out of the stern back panel of my 19ft inboard tournament ski boat. Not good. Fortunately I turned on the bilge pump and the water was pumped out in short order. We kept an eye on the water intrusion and it was slow enough not to get in the way of a fun day of skiing for all of us. After one run through the slalom course a piece we took on only 4" of water in the bilge. But this is about 3.5" more than we should. After the day of skiing was done we unscrewed the back floor panel to look at the drive train and fittings from the inside to try and find the leak. From what we could tell the drive shaft coupling was well sealed and that the leak was coming from somewhere on the stern left of the centerline behind the fuel tank where it was not visible without moving the tank.........not a quick job to do. This left two possibilities looking at the outside of the boat. Either it was a leak around the left inboard exhaust seal or it was related to the left speedometer cable or pickup mount. This is where the food coloring come in. We went home and came back two days later with my wife's box of multiple food coloring bottles and pulled the boat up on the trailer. We drained all the water in the bilge and then tilted it so any residual bilge water would run to the back. We looked for a leak with our eyes and none could be readily seen. Next we made up a bucket of water with a dark brew of blue, red and green food coloring and dumped it in the bilge. After a few minutes a slow drop by drop trickle began to show up around where the left speedometer cable exits the hull; leak identified. We didn't have the proper sealant with us at the time to fix it on the spot but that will be today's job. Hopefully we will again be seaworthy soon. Why yellow Easter eggs? Well yellow was the only color in the box we didn't use. I quietly but the almost empty box, save the yellow dye, back on the kitchen cupboard shelf. Unless my wife reads this, she'll never know..... at least until next Easter.