A couple of years ago my friend's Shock 35 picked up a line in the water. Unfortunately the line was made fast to semi-submerged piece of dock timber. The prop sucked the line complete with the attached timber into the running gear with such force that it bent the Max prop, pushed the strut through the bottom of the boat and rotated the Yanmar GM3F off of it's mounts. making matters worse the 12' long piece if timber slammed into the boat's keel with enough force to crack the keel fairing requiring the keel to be removed and inspected. Needless to say, this lightly built boat has never been quite the same. Fortunately he was close enough to shore to place the keel in the mud until the USCG showed up with pumps to keep her from sinking completely. The boat was on the hard for well over a year while my friend finally sorted out the repairs with the underwriters. When I saw the damage I was shocked how just thin the hull lay up was on this boat... Jack Fitzgerald HONEY C&C 39 TM In a message dated 8/14/2012 3:43:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, colt...@verizon.net writes:
Sail Drive. Never thought about that. I would bet you could do some damage with a wrapped prop. Hope that wasn’t damaged. Never liked them, with that big hole and rubber gasket. The reason (Probably) he didn’t dive is it was after 10 pm, plus, so rough that it would have been pretty dangerous. Still blowing in the 18 – 20’ s, with residual slop from 30 Kts earlier. Bill Coleman C&C 39 From: cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Hoyt, Mike Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:09 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List C&C 115 Lost on Lake Erie C&C 115 has a sail drive ____________________________________ From: cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Frederick G Street Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:33 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List C&C 115 Lost on Lake Erie That's what I was wondering -- surface temps in the Great Lakes are at all-time record high's, and Lake Michigan is usually warmer than Superior in any case. Although, if they did a really good job with the wrap, they might have bent the shaft or pulled the strut off; so maybe motoring wouldn't have been an option, in any case. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Aug 14, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Wally Bryant wrote: Or jump overboard and unfoul the prop. _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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