On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:06:28 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

as y'all know, i replaced a starter in my boat, started it from the
upper helm station and promptly destroyed the starter. tim helped me
understand the starter switch is probably staying engaged and keeping
the bendix in the flywheel.

We had a switch stick on our Turbocraft[hull number ten, of the first
batch of jet boats ever sold in the US] once. It trashed the starter.
Unfortunately the Graymarine six had the flywheel on the wrong end and
starters were scarce. It had a crank nut on the front of the flywheel,
so we went to a junkyard and got a crank.

Casady