On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:41:09 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

They ended up wrapping a submerged chunk of 2" hawser on one of their shafts
and ripped the cutlass bearing mounting plate right out of the hull.

It's amazing how much stuff like that is out there, most of it
floating polypropolene line and netting from commercial fishing boats.

We heard a distress conversation 2 years ago between a 110 ft Broward
and the coast guard. They had become entangled in floating line
somewhere off the Carolina coast and were dead in the water.