"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:10:04 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

I pulled my cowling yesterday on my Merc 40 OB to change my fuel filter.
Filter was fine, but several places did not have hose clamps. I ran to
NAPA
for some. They come ten in a box. Guy asked me if I wanted a box. Sure.
I'll have some extras. Between everything, I used nine of them. Now to
take it out on a run and see if it solves the high speed cutout. (Well,
just under 30 MPH FEELS high speed)

Among sailboats that is high speed. Thirty eight foot daysailors, 1850
pound A scows, can go that fast and so can some high tech catamarans.
My three grand 22 foot cuddy fish/ski can't be much faster than that
with a 226 inch four, 170 hp. I fish and just run about Spirit Lake
the largest natural lake in Iowa. . Anywhere is four miles at most
from the dock. The larger artificial lakes are full of stump fields
that are sometimes barely covered. I was in the cuddy getting a beer,
on one, when the driver ran us into the hidden trees. He wanted to
snuggle up to a bouy to read the print that said keep back 300 feet in
2 inch letters. I will buy a good stainless steel prop and carry the
dinged aluminum for a spare. They say that to boat the artificial
lakes you need three props. One mounted, a spare, and one in the shop.

Casady

In the Louisiana swamps, the boat of choice for the local crawfishermen was
a custom welded flat bottom 16' boat with a 50 hp. Merc hand tiller. I have
seen at least two dozen of them sheared off at half shaft from hitting
SOMETHING. You can't see squat in that muddy water.

Steve