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

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