I've seen boat motors on muffs and sometimes the prop will turn while in neutral. I don't think there is any force while that is happening, but I don't want to find out.
In this case there wasn't much I could do, he wasn't that close to the props or I would have shut down. Short of that I was just trying to do what I could to not escalate the situation. If I shut down my engines, things would have got messy in a real hurry. There was a good strong current in the channel this weekend.
Why don't I "just say no" to the channel. I really don't have to go to Paugus Bay, there is plenty of other lake out there.
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