Maybe wrong forum, as not specifically Starcraft, but...

[mvd2bze]

How come everyone has such a hard time keeping their props in good shape? I have always boated on well-charted lakes, and only hit a rock once when a family member not used to the area or what north/east south/west meant. Even then, the outboard popped up as designed and only knicked the skeg.

While I am in the market for new boats, I am seeing not only MANY boats with more than 20% missing on some blades, and ripped skegs, but repaired blades that have been hit again and again until they are broken again. Maybe this should be telling me something about these boats, but I have never been unfortunate (is it just luck?) enough to damage a prop.

So to recap my questions:
1) how many of you hit rocks on a regular basis?
2) how many of you boat on uncharted waters?
3) do you consider a boat with a dinged prob worth less, like I am beginning to?

Thanks!!

(Mods, if this is too general for Starcraft owners, let me know, and sorry)

 

[Watermann]

My wife backed into my Sea Nymph and belt one of the blades...

I worry about driftwood more than I do rocks since I grew up on the water and learned early on how to read it. A big soggy hunk of low floating driftwood will knock a blade right off your prop. The lake I was on today is 1500 feet deep at it's deepest, a mile wide and 20 yards off shore in places it pegged my depth finder 300+ feet so no rock worry there but entire drifting trees were floating in the water.

About people who can't catch a clue, I was going through drift fields of some good sized wood and had dunces in their new boats blasting past me looking at me funny as I was putting along dodging the big stuff. Guess they figure their dual propped bravo with a big block motor is a chipper shredder.

 

[mvd2bze]

Thanks for the reply!

I was thinking of / referring to boats on craigslist, and one in particular that I saw with extensive lower unit damage. I hadn't considered trees. Of all the times I've been out and rescued others from branches, I've never had the misfortune of hitting them. Most of the damage I've seen looked like it must have been from rocks.

How did your wife react when she bent your prop? My wife would've blamed me if she backed into my boat, for sure.

 

[Watermann]

Yeap I parked my truck with the boat in tow in the wrong place. Nevermind that she drove by it first into the driveway and then 10 minutes later backed into it... and her car has collision avoidance sensors. :facepalm: