But Bruce, on the other hand, sort of like owning a gambling casino, if it was not for stupid people, you would be riding on the back of a garbage truck about daylight.....kinda like me & crooks.
I will never forget the expresion on the face of the typically expressionless Capt. Pat. as I was describing my props repeatedly leaving the water, the tach slamming over to red line, and then dropping back to 3000 rpm when the prop re-entered the water.
You would have thought I just exited a UFO.
I could tell he was trying to pick his words a bit, and on the fly edit out the more unseemly of descriptive terms for his estimation of my mental competance and capacity.
Bruce your shots help make another case for the durability factor of inboards over the standard, off the shelf I/O units.
Ernest I have done the same on occassion and my little TwinDisc gear has yet to end up like that Bravo unit, can't say the beverage cans on the dash have faired as well.
Scot
1969 Bertram 25 "Roly Poly"
she'll float one of these days.. no really it will :-0
Scot,
Had a customer back in the 80's, grandson to the Johnson and Johnson fortune out cruising on dads boat.
Twin 454 inboard Crusaders. Running at 4 grand, hit a wave and knocked both engines out of gear. Instead of throttling back, shoved them right back into gear.
Never saw two Borg Warner reduction gears implode before or since, that bad.
He was a nice kid, not bright, but then he was a member of the lucky sperm club and didn't have to be.