Ouch
 

Not mine! Yikes.

I think the key word in that statement is "was". Sounds like something I would have said to my parents as a teenager:D

With the damage to that aluminum prop..there is also going to be damage to the SKEG on the lower unit..Outdrive/Outboard. The SKEG is gonna be gone...that will be more expensive than replacing that prop. That prop is probably $85...plus whatever the renter wants to charge you for their trouble. ....AND then the SKEG :look: NB

$85? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

WOW! I am impressed! I earned my screen name the hard way, but I may have to turn it over to you! Normally I would recommend Tacoma Propeller for a rebuild, but I think this might be just a little more than that..... Is there a story that goes with it?

Don't see the problem.
 

Who tossed this thing? Getting rid of a perfectly good prop. When I was a kid, just to get to school, we used to have to take the boat through 4-5' waves, then over a boulder-strewn hillside, and 1.5 miles on 11A. If my father ever saw me throw out something in that good of condition, he would have grounded me for a month.

He was definately in deep water or deep something after losing 2 blades.:eek:

Confession...
 

I'm on my third prop this year!

Misty Blue

Updating your chip would be a lot cheaper !! ;)

I just don't get it - I've never lost a prop, or come anywhere close!

I guess spending years sailing on a boat with a 6-foot keel makes you navigate a bit more carefully... ;)

More Please!
 

How does such a seasoned boater lose three props in one year?! Were you rescuing others? Any advice to keep this from happening to the rest of us?

Thankfully, we've had only a couple close calls. Being newbies and later, inattention.

Keep you eyes open for flotsam and keep Bizer's map handy.

Meredith Marine
 

Some years ago we valet stored our boat at Meredith Marine. The owner back then, Barry Dixon, had a display labled "The Wall of Shame." It was covered with various demolished props, bent shafts and broken lower units. I think it was an effective tool to make his rental boaters pay attention to the markers. It also kept us from wanting to be added to the collection as the latest addition to the "Wall.":D (Overheard in the rental office at MM) "I thought that marker was RED! When I got close enough it miraculously turned BLACK! :eek:Then I heard this loud thumping and now the boat won't go over 10mph." We have all had that sinking feeling after hearing something go thump under the boat. It's usually floating wood or other "stuff." Love this forum because it keeps me attached to the lake when I'm so far away.

The Breeze
Wave 'cuz I'll be wavin' back

staying off the lake would make more sense

:laugh:

lost prop
 

a few years back my dad and I went down the river at Parkers and trying to turn around I lost my prop. I mean It came off the boat. I forgot what we were doing down there, but I had to paddle back to the bridge and Dad went home and got the pontoon boat to bring me back. I never figured out why the cotterpin, nut and washer came off, and I could not find the propellar.

I recall when the 6 hp and the 18 hp had cotter pins in fact we still have some for the 18 hp. They should have been a dime a dozen for all we used!

well...
 

Well...if you are boating on Lake Winni on a regular basis, it's a safe bet that you probably have come close, but never knew it.
I don't think anyone sets out, to come close, or "take a chance"...it just happens. Lose focus for a split second in Sally's Gut...CRUNCH!
Travell thru the Weirs chanell late in the year, with the lake down, move a fraction to far to the side...CRUNCH.
Decide to spend a Saturday afternoon in a small cove you have never been in...CRUNCH.
I, too, can say I have never lost a prop...knock wood...but assume I have come close (I once enter the Witches at close to 35 MPH). I'm sure I have come very close other times, and never knew it. Part of the deal on Winni.
Being careful and a good navigator has little to do it. I think most of us are very careful, and know our way around. Unmarked rocks around some of the small islands are waiting for you...don't temp fate with such an arrogant statement. The boating gods of Winni will take notice...

Yup. I clipped my first prop ever this year, just outside of Sally's Gut and I know for a fact that I was inside of the markers, just got a little too close while admiring some of the houses.

YUP: Happened to me a couple of years ago when I hit a rock while showing a guest the Real Estate at Umbrella Point (Wolfeboro Neck). It put a nice "Curl" in my $400 SS Cleaver. I'm tellin ya: It's the Real Estate that did it. And the property wasn't even all that nice. :D :D NB

It's For Sale: Take the tour.

http://www.nhsynergy.com/search/Deta...?mlsid=2712919

Looks nice. How come no dollar value on taxes?

I think the taxes for Tax Year 2010 were $115,526.00 :) NB

PS: Other than that, I know Nuth Ing. :D