Skybolt
Well-Known Member
- Nov 11, 2014
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- Boat Info
- Reel Nauti
460 EC
- Engines
- Detroit 6v92TA
(Low profile's)
Alison Gears
Westerbeke
12.5kw Genset
Again hitting a stationary rock ripped nothing off. I just don’t get it. Anyway time to get her repaired.
No I understand what you have said and where you are coming from, not arguing that at all. It's just from an objective view that this doesn't make any sense and I agree with the assessment made by the surveyor's. Some serious forces had to rip the shaft out of the boat, it didn't just happen on it's own without external forces at play, unless nothing was tightened at all, but that was ruled out by the 3rd party surveyor as well.
EDIT: This is different from hitting a rock, something like a chain that was anchored, like an old channel marker buoy, would have had to be picked up and that is what did the damage. Would have happened very fast at the same time you noticed the engine wind up in RPM.