No, you should not have been going faster than you reaction time
would
allow you to throttle back or go into neutral, especially if you were
still near the marina.


According to the head mechanic, the damage was instant and the
decoupling also instant. Throttling back wasn't going to hurt or help.
I shut the engine down. Thier verdict: A semi-submerged log or timber
of some sort


Snagging a line is fairly common; wrapping it so
tight you bend a shaft is more likely incompetence. Doing it inside
the marina is pretty stupid!


I did not hit a line.


So, your claiming that someone other than Beneteau took the proper
shaft out of you boat and put in an inferior replacement???
Shouldn't
a survey catch that?


Nope. I was making light of your comment regarding build quality.
Especially not knowing what we hit, how it engaged the prop and so on.
You can do what we did: Guess. The head mechanic probably knows more
about such things than you do. He said there was no way we could have
avoided it and we were barely turning 2000 RPM. When our tow boat came
around they said something hard bumped their boat, but they couldn't
see it. But knowing what happened they arrived with the big Yamaha
tilted halfway up.



RB
35s5
NY