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Dredging with your boat

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Not a good idea;
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Also if you have a boat with engines like these, don't jump waves;

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Been a busy week with less than stellar customers.
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Post by In Memory of Vicroy »

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.

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Post by Harry Babb »

Bruce

You could write a book from all of the mishaps that you have seen in your time............

Vic

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Those pics are unbelieveable

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bruce...what am i lookin at in that bottom picture?
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If your gonna use the boat for a dredge...you need a closed system, keel cooled Detroit. Tugs make great dredges.
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Post by Bruce »

The bottom pic is the forward gear on a bravo drive. Not a tooth left on the gear, or the pinion for that matter.

Looking at it with the rear cover removed.
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Post by jspiezio »

At least learn to throttle back when you your drive exits and re-enters the water.

Makes me feel good to know there are folks like that in boats like that on the water as I head home after sun down.....
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Post by Hyena Love »

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.

Good times.
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He was just trying to form more than the common two that describe such an adventure.
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Post by scot »

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.
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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.
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He was a nice kid, not bright, but then he was a member of the lucky sperm club and didn't have to be.
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