anyway after my mead dealio on sunday with the group...hold on...when i was out on mead with everyone i checked my dipstick and had some water in the oil...so anyway when i got home i decided to recheck the oil...well i started to pull on the dipstick and it wouldnt budge...so i pulled a little harder and out it came! anyway when it came out it was bent into a U...my question is has anyone had this happen? if so what the hell caused it? could it be the timing chain? could it be the crank? should i be worried?

wow, when you checked it at the lake, did the dipstick bind going it?  do you have a windage tray in your pan?

On a dooley pan, you prolly have a windage tray, (They come with them). the dipstick probably hit that and got turned sideways along the tray (Towards the aft end of the boat) a bit Josh. If that happened, a rod or counterweight probably bitch slapped it around a bit (#1 and #5). The fortunate thing is because the side the dipstick goes into, the dipstick woulda been bent down and away from the mains and rods and not sucked up into them. That mighta been disaster.

Both mine tend to hit the tray going in, kinda gotta tap them around a bit before they go in. The trick is to not just jam it in there, lol.

You're probably ok, doesn't sound major, but with that and the water, I'd change the oil and filter for sure.

Ray