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Love your gear, and they will love you!
Posted By: bruce
Date: Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 5:03 p.m.
After coming back from a great time in Wisconsin, I had a call from a customer who I repowered his motor tub last fall indicating there was a shaft problem.
He hit some soft sand and bent the wheels and had a dive service remove them. The diver noticed that the port shaft was polished ahead of the prop an inch.
He thought that the shaft was comming out of the coupling.While not very likely, I looked anyway to discover 3 sheared coupling bolts and one bolt still holding the shaft on, but bent.
Boy he really must have hit hard I thought. So much for soft sand.I reported what I found, he denied he hit that hard, I let it go cause they just don't shear that easy and I didn't want to argue.
Oh by the way he tells me, he had a real close one this past Sunday PM.
Running at a blazing speed of 16 knots(20 ton boat) he was in a narrow part of the ICW channel with a 25' sail boat comming the opposite way.
Just then a big Viking passed him flat out about 15' off his stb side comming from the stern.
The wake thru the bow to the port and into the on comming sailboat. The sail boat turned hard to stb which at this point gave a mid broadside shot to this motor tub.
All the owner could see was cutting the sailboat in half.He told me he put it in hard reverse with his bow pulpit just going over the sailboat railing and missing it by inches.
I said that was some fine manuvering, bringing the throttles back, going into reverse and full throttle again. I said my stringers I built were put to the test and passed.
Huh? he said.
What are you taliking about?At about that point it dawned on me.
No throttle back, no neutral, not reverse.JUST STRAIGHT INTO REVERSE FROM A 16 KNOT SPEED IN FORWARD.
It looks like I will be replacing two gears next week.
I think I will get a trailered boat and tow it across the country. When some one asks me whats that behind the truck,
I'm home.........................
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