ThorSen
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- Aug 17, 2017
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- Boat Info
- 2018 SPX 190 OUTBOARD 150
- Engines
- 150 4-stroke Mercury outboard
Did you get a chance to test out the new hub?
Aye, we did! We squeezed a 20-minute run in between our “set your watch by” evening rain showers; and, as we had no “load” on a rope behind us not surprisingly, did not notice anything even remotely resembling what we saw and heard that day we were pulling the towable w the gkids on it.
For now, we’re chalking it up to sleuth Lazy Daze’ points and, because there was a purpose-designed wake boat nearby creating huge-*ss swells where were when it happened, particularly the part about possibly "catching air" from a large wake ... The Admiral and I have talked about it and truth of the matter is, our 9 & 13 yoa gkids eventually got “bored” riding on the Big Mable, first being pulled as if on a sofa and then eventually “chariot”-style. The answer is not pushing the boat to make harder and harder turns but rather getting them knee boards (the “next step up” in adrenaline ;-) and/or putting the boat up and jumping on the wave runner, jet ski or Spark TRixx...
Full disclosure: we were so busy arguing over the impending next cloud dump I totally forgot to look at where the anti-ventilation plate was riding, in relation to the lake surface. Ha-ha, ANOTHER great reason to take her back out!
In the long run, I’m the better for the (only my 2nd) experience of setting up our modular “maintenance gangplank” and getting intimate with the prop assembly (any excuse to get grease between the fingers, right? !