"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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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.



For the benefit of the OP, the Hudson is loaded with chunks of wood, and
sometimes entire trees. There are so many so-called "creeks" that empty into
the river, many of them big enough to carry lots of debris, especially
during the spring thaw and a month or three afterward. This is why many of
the creeks were used for moving lumber.