On Jun 14, 9:05*pm, "Mike Slater" wrote:
"JR North" wrote in message

diainc...





Your prop hub is slipping. Get the prop rebuilt.
JR
BTDT got the T-shirt, too

Mike Slater wrote:

I was cruising along in my 24ft pontoon boat when I got a real surprise.
Somebody please tell me how and why I could be running wide open throttle
at my normal 5500 rpm and then suddenly the boat took off like a bat out
of hell running at 8000 rpms and 25mph??? *I never touched the throttle.
It has never run that fast ever. *After about 2 minutes it went back down
to 5500 and never did 8000 again. *Its a 60hp mercury Bigfoot outboard.
It has never done this before and I don't even know how it could rev that
high and go 25mph. *Normal is 5500 and 17mph. *What happened??

Mike

Nope. *The boat went from its normal 17mph WOT cruising speed up to 25mph in
an instant.

Mike-

The anchor you've been dragging around finally broke free. :-)