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Originally Posted by webmaster
As a point of interest, the Mount has no neutral. It is direct drive. When the engines are running the props are turning. To reverse the props the engines are stopped, levers are pulled that shift the cam shafts and the engines are restarted in the reverse direction. This takes quite an orchestrated effort every time the ship is docked and is the reason it's gone out of control a few times when they were unable to do everything necessary to complete the reversal process.
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I've seen her come into Weirs Beach on the "Hot Side" a few times myself and said "Man.... I hope a prop shaft doesn't brake", She'd take out Central NH.!
I'm hoping that part of the off season maintenance includes x raying them shafts for cracks!