finchturf
New Member
We took Blackberry Down out for a shakedown cruise this past weekend - both for the boat and for our new 6 month old daughter! Our daughter did much better than the boat though... A mile or so up the river - I hit a piece of wood that looked like a slat from a pallet... Nothing too terribly big and I didn't even see it - until the 10 or so pieces of it came up in our wake! One piece got stuck on something and acted like a trim tab - that was fun! We stopped immediately - didn't notice any issues in the bilge. The starboard prop shaft has a little bit of movement to it but I'm not sure if it wasn't like that before? My big question is can you hit something like that and not do any damage? There didn't feel to be any vibration afterwards - although at that point its in your head and you feel everything! I've got a diver coming later this week just to take a peek - sucks it was on the first run of the year!