skibum
Well-Known Member
I guess it had to happen sometime. I was leaving Fairlee Creek last Tuesday and picked up a crab pot float just as I was coming up on plane. The engine never waivered. We heard a wack, wack, wack and then the boat started slowing down. I shut her down and dropped the hook. We tried to get under the boat to inspect the props, but there was a 2' chop and the boat was bouncing around too much to risk getting under there. I could feel the line wrapped around the props, but nothing else was visible. Unfiortunately, I managed to drop the one knife that I had on board that could cut it off in the water. It took Sea Tow 3 hours to make the 12 mile trip back to my marina. For those of you that have never been towed, this is what the view looks like from the end of the rope...
When I woke up on Wednesday morning, I saw this. It apparently spun around so that the float was in the back during the tow home. That thing at the bottom of the pole is a heavy weight. It feels like a metal bottle filled with concrete. The marina pulled my boat and we removed it. We dropped the boat back in the water, and now I have no forward or reverse. The surveyor just called me and fortunately, he knows my mechanic. He is going to authorize funds for him to pull the drive apart to see what broke. Looks like I am going to be boatless for at least another week, and will once again miss Aquapalooza :smt089
Anyone want to guess as to what broke? I suspect the clutch assembly because everything sounds normal when I turn the props by hand. The shifter is very hard to move in either direction.
When I woke up on Wednesday morning, I saw this. It apparently spun around so that the float was in the back during the tow home. That thing at the bottom of the pole is a heavy weight. It feels like a metal bottle filled with concrete. The marina pulled my boat and we removed it. We dropped the boat back in the water, and now I have no forward or reverse. The surveyor just called me and fortunately, he knows my mechanic. He is going to authorize funds for him to pull the drive apart to see what broke. Looks like I am going to be boatless for at least another week, and will once again miss Aquapalooza :smt089
Anyone want to guess as to what broke? I suspect the clutch assembly because everything sounds normal when I turn the props by hand. The shifter is very hard to move in either direction.