Fouling something hard enough to bend a shaft while leaving the
marina
doesn't speak well for your seamanship or the construction quality of
your boat.



You're right! I should've had my forward looking sonar aimed right at
the surface, as whatever it was did not appear at the surface even
after we hit it. Our shaft was not made by Beneteau, but clearly it
must have been inferior French steel!


RB
35s5
NY

* Capt. Rob wrote, On 7/11/2007 9:25 AM:
Fouling something hard enough to bend a shaft while leaving the
marina
doesn't speak well for your seamanship or the construction quality of
your boat.



You're right! I should've had my forward looking sonar aimed right at
the surface, as whatever it was did not appear at the surface even
after we hit it.


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.

This is yet another case like your hitting a rock and then claiming
everyone does it. 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!

Our shaft was not made by Beneteau, but clearly it
must have been inferior French steel!

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?

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

On Jul 11, 8:25 am, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
Fouling something hard enough to bend a shaft while leaving the
marina
doesn't speak well for your seamanship or the construction quality of
your boat.

You're right! I should've had my forward looking sonar aimed right at
the surface, as whatever it was did not appear at the surface even
after we hit it. Our shaft was not made by Beneteau, but clearly it
must have been inferior French steel!

RB
35s5
NY

Did you get SeaTow to haul you back to the dock, or Tow-boats US?

Joe

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RB
35s5
NY

Did you get SeaTow to haul you back to the dock, or
Tow-boats US?


I May-Dayed the coasties and they called SeaTow.

RB
355s55
NY

Did you get SeaTow to haul you back to the dock, or Tow-boats US?



The beauty of working with my club is that I made a quick call and
they brought us to the travel lift using the service boat.



RB
35s5
NY

On Jul 11, 6:54 pm, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
Did you get SeaTow to haul you back to the dock, or Tow-boats US?

The beauty of working with my club is that I made a quick call and
they brought us to the travel lift using the service boat.

RB
35s5
NY

Yeah that sounds nice.. We do not have that service here, unless you
call a friend.

Don't feel to bad, I've bent so many shafts and propellors the owner
of one boat named his beach house the Broken Wheel Ranch and hung all
my bent props around the place.. If you have exposed shafts, struts
and props thats going to happen if you use the boat.

Joe

Jeff wrote:

* Capt. Rob wrote, On 7/10/2007 8:11 AM:
While leaving the club, our prop fouled something. In spite of our
Drivesaver, our shaft picked up a slight bend and I'm now shorthauled
for the repair.

OUCHY!


Fouling something hard enough to bend a shaft while leaving the marina
doesn't speak well for your seamanship or the construction quality of
your boat.

Boat was on stands in the yard, Bob backed the Aerostar into the
prop......

Cheers
Marty

"Capt. Rob" wrote:

While leaving the club, our prop fouled something. In spite of our
Drivesaver, our shaft picked up a slight bend and I'm now shorthauled
for the repair.

The Drivesaver is not meant to protect your shaft, it protects the
transmision and engine. Once again something you may have heard of but
know nothing about.

Cheers
Marty

The Drivesaver is not meant to protect your shaft, it protects the
transmision and engine. Once again something you may have heard of
but
know nothing about.



Wrong agaiin, Martin. I spoke to the folks at Drivesaver and they
claim that shaft damage is less likely with their drivesaver. They
make zero claims that ANY component will be protected 100%, but a
light strike to a propeller can be abosrbed by the drivesaver.
Looks like it did protect the tranny, but we'll never know for sure.
I guess we won't be seeing any sailing shots from you this year, right
Martin? Oh yeah...you don't have to "prove" anything!


RB
35s5
NY