Relax, it's a sail boat

Seahag

"Ken" wrote in message
...
Here is the whole embarrassing story. A friend was at the
helm, we
were motoring down the channel at 2600 RPM. I have a 3
cylinder Yanmar
engine. I was dealing with the sheets. I asked my friend
to slow down.
He got confused between the transmission and the throttle.
Instead of
cutting back the throttle, he threw the transmission from
forward to
reverse! There was a terrible noise as you can imagine. My
friend
immediately realized that he had made a mistake and
shifted to
neutral. After that, the engine and transmission seemed to
behave
normally but now I am not as confident as I was. So what
do you think?
Will I need a new transmission? And what about the folding
prop? Any
advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ken