Isn't learning about draft great!

[Keith the Cop]

Well three times out w my 400 and I've learned that I need to watch the tides a little better than w my 340. I took a decent chunk out of a prop where I normally wouldn't have had an issue.

So out for recondition they go. But does anyone have a set of 22x23 LC high torque 1 3/4" laying around they want to sell? Pm me!

 

[EKM]

I know of a pair of 22 x24" Hy Torq props (1.75" shafts)....my friend had a spare for his 99 400DA he sold.

 

[2000SR380]

Learning about draft is fine when it comes to Imported and Domestic Brews, but not so much when you use your wheels as a depth finder! I can laugh at this one because we just had one of ours at the prop shop. We have only owned our 380DA since October, so it was pretty fresh from it's initial yard bill, on new Years Eve, when I ran over my own freaking bow line coming out of Pier 39. We had picked up some friends in the City to watch the fire works from the water. Because the dock line was 'fast' to the starboard bow cleat the line wrapped up the shaft, created a ball of line at the shaft tube. This forced the shaft down into the hull, which then chunked out a nice piece of fiber glass, tweaked the prop, and bent the shaft. I submit that as an fairly equal and similarly expensive nautical Faux pas. Hopefully we have both learned from our errors! :smt021

 

[PMC]

EKM - PM sent

 

[PMC]

Keith - tough break. No lies on the amount of water she draws

 

[fwebster]

As you are about to learn, the price for those lessons come with about a $750 ticket at the prop shop.

I've bought a couple of those: One was stupid tax, since I should have paid closer attention to the instruments onboard, and the other came from an dive boat washing me onto an oyster bar with an excessive wake in a no wake zone. The lessons I learned were to know and understand the off-set on your bottom measuring equipment and if you don't have reliable sounding gear, invest in it. Next, is to display bottom contour lines on your plotter...if you have them toggled off, toggle them on for close ranges. Then, know precisely where you are, and finally, never, ever assume a nearby boat will follow the law or USCG Regs.......some guys in nearly every walk of life assume they are exempt from the law. The dive boat captain found out he wasn't......it took 6 months, but I eventually was paid for the damaged props.

 

[NorCal Boater]

I too feel your pain. I went from a 39" draft to a 48" draft. I assumed....wrongly, that I could cruise the same paths the I did with the old boat.

Can you say,"Ka-Ching?"