Gogarty wrote:

In article ,
says...

My answer would be the same as yours and also that if you have a two
blade prop, it should be locked in line with the keel if it is
possible to determine where that is etc.

Well, next time you haul you mark the shaft inside the boat to indicate
when the prop is up and down behid the keel or skeg or whatever. After
twenty years, I might yet get around to doing that.

In our case, the freewheeling prop made so much noise that one of the
first things we did was get a feathering prop. We do have evidence
that feathering the prop increases our sailing speed, in addition to
being quieter.

Ours doesn't freewheel in reverse.

So you don't really need it then.

And the cost of a feathering prop really
put me off.

The feathering prop also gave us increased speed. That alone made it
worth the money. A folding prop and a feathering prop are different
and we have the less expensive one. Plus, we found when we took the
prop off that we had a scored shaft which had to be replaced.


grandma Rosalie