On 10/6/17 6:44 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 08:06:55 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

Hate to interrupt all the 'Americans Acting badly With Guns' posts, but I had a small bit of misfortune yesterday.
I was up boating with my Springer Spaniel on Grand Lake and got a bit nosy checking out Sidney Crosby's house and his waterfront access. I was motoring slowly along when I saw the depth gauge suddenly go from 5-6 feet to just less than 3 feet. Heard the bang right away so I quickly tilted up the motor and shifted it to neutral. With the swim platform covering the I/O Alpha Drive it was hard to see if I had any damage and as I floated back into deeper water I moved into forward and didn't notice anything unusual so I continued my 2 hour tour of the lake. Only after retrieving the boat did I see a chunk missing out of one of my aluminum propeller blades.
D'oh...don't know if that can be repaired or if I have to buy a new one.

I remembered that during the summer, there was a string of brightly coloured floating balls stretched along where I went about 40-50 feet offshore. Now I know why they were there. I should send a letter to Crosby complaining that he should have left the 'barrier' out at least until Thanksgiving this Monday.


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Aluminum props are usually repairable, small matter of money of
course.

If you have an Android or Apple cell phone you might want to look
into an app called Navionics (US and Canada). It turns your phone
into a fairly robust GPS chart plotter and will give you some advance
warning of those jumping rocks. It's much cheaper than prop repair.
Everyone here except your narcissistic buddy has hit a rock at one
time or another.

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If you are referring to me, I'm sure I hit every submerged rock between
Milford and Branford in Long Island Sound.

True North wrote:
Hate to interrupt all the 'Americans Acting badly With Guns' posts, but I had a small bit of misfortune yesterday.
I was up boating with my Springer Spaniel on Grand Lake and got a bit nosy checking out Sidney Crosby's house and his waterfront access. I was motoring slowly along when I saw the depth gauge suddenly go from 5-6 feet to just less than 3 feet. Heard the bang right away so I quickly tilted up the motor and shifted it to neutral. With the swim platform covering the I/O Alpha Drive it was hard to see if I had any damage and as I floated back into deeper water I moved into forward and didn't notice anything unusual so I continued my 2 hour tour of the lake. Only after retrieving the boat did I see a chunk missing out of one of my aluminum propeller blades.
D'oh...don't know if that can be repaired or if I have to buy a new one.

I remembered that during the summer, there was a string of brightly coloured floating balls stretched along where I went about 40-50 feet offshore. Now I know why they were there. I should send a letter to Crosby complaining that he should have left the 'barrier' out at least until Thanksgiving this Monday.


Ever heard of a chart? I/O's are lake boats.

On 10/6/17 8:11 PM, Alex wrote:
True North wrote:
Hate to interrupt all the 'Americans Acting badly With Guns' posts,
but I had a small bit of misfortune yesterday.
I was up boating with my Springer Spaniel on Grand Lake and got a bit
nosy checking out Sidney Crosby's house and his waterfront access.Â* I
was motoring slowly along when I saw the depth gauge suddenly go from
5-6 feet to just less than 3 feet. Heard the bang right away so I
quickly tilted up the motor and shifted it to neutral.Â* With the swim
platform covering the I/O Alpha Drive it was hard to see if I had any
damage and as I floated back into deeper water I moved into forward
and didn't notice anything unusual so I continued my 2 hour tour of
the lake. Only after retrieving the boat did I see a chunk missing out
of one of my aluminum propeller blades.
D'oh...don't know if that can be repaired or if I have to buy a new one.

I remembered that during the summer, there was a string of brightly
coloured floating balls stretched along where I went about 40-50 feet
offshore.Â* Now I know why they were there.Â* I should send a letter to
Crosby complaining that he should have left the 'barrier' out at least
until Thanksgiving this Monday.


Ever heard of a chart?Â* I/O's are lake boats.

I'm not an I/O fan, but your claim about "lake boats" is just another
example of your ignorance.

Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/6/17 8:11 PM, Alex wrote:
True North wrote:
Hate to interrupt all the 'Americans Acting badly With Guns' posts,
but I had a small bit of misfortune yesterday.
I was up boating with my Springer Spaniel on Grand Lake and got a
bit nosy checking out Sidney Crosby's house and his waterfront
access. I was motoring slowly along when I saw the depth gauge
suddenly go from 5-6 feet to just less than 3 feet. Heard the bang
right away so I quickly tilted up the motor and shifted it to
neutral. With the swim platform covering the I/O Alpha Drive it was
hard to see if I had any damage and as I floated back into deeper
water I moved into forward and didn't notice anything unusual so I
continued my 2 hour tour of the lake. Only after retrieving the boat
did I see a chunk missing out of one of my aluminum propeller blades.
D'oh...don't know if that can be repaired or if I have to buy a new
one.

I remembered that during the summer, there was a string of brightly
coloured floating balls stretched along where I went about 40-50
feet offshore. Now I know why they were there. I should send a
letter to Crosby complaining that he should have left the 'barrier'
out at least until Thanksgiving this Monday.


Ever heard of a chart? I/O's are lake boats.

I'm not an I/O fan, but your claim about "lake boats" is just another
example of your ignorance.

Is lake and river better? I/O's have little to no place in the ocean
for a variety of reasons.

On 10/7/17 9:21 PM, Alex wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/6/17 8:11 PM, Alex wrote:
True North wrote:
Hate to interrupt all the 'Americans Acting badly With Guns' posts,
but I had a small bit of misfortune yesterday.
I was up boating with my Springer Spaniel on Grand Lake and got a
bit nosy checking out Sidney Crosby's house and his waterfront
access.Â* I was motoring slowly along when I saw the depth gauge
suddenly go from 5-6 feet to just less than 3 feet. Heard the bang
right away so I quickly tilted up the motor and shifted it to
neutral.Â* With the swim platform covering the I/O Alpha Drive it was
hard to see if I had any damage and as I floated back into deeper
water I moved into forward and didn't notice anything unusual so I
continued my 2 hour tour of the lake. Only after retrieving the boat
did I see a chunk missing out of one of my aluminum propeller blades.
D'oh...don't know if that can be repaired or if I have to buy a new
one.

I remembered that during the summer, there was a string of brightly
coloured floating balls stretched along where I went about 40-50
feet offshore.Â* Now I know why they were there.Â* I should send a
letter to Crosby complaining that he should have left the 'barrier'
out at least until Thanksgiving this Monday.


Ever heard of a chart?Â* I/O's are lake boats.

I'm not an I/O fan, but your claim about "lake boats" is just another
example of your ignorance.

Is lake and river better?Â* I/O's have little to no place in the ocean
for a variety of reasons.


As far as can be told here, your "expertise" in boating is limited to
buying non-collectible firearms from a Ruger auction site. I'm not a fan
of I/O's for several reasons, but I've seen - literally - thousands of
boats of all sizes out on the ocean powered by I/O's.

Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/7/17 9:21 PM, Alex wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/6/17 8:11 PM, Alex wrote:
True North wrote:
Hate to interrupt all the 'Americans Acting badly With Guns'
posts, but I had a small bit of misfortune yesterday.
I was up boating with my Springer Spaniel on Grand Lake and got a
bit nosy checking out Sidney Crosby's house and his waterfront
access. I was motoring slowly along when I saw the depth gauge
suddenly go from 5-6 feet to just less than 3 feet. Heard the bang
right away so I quickly tilted up the motor and shifted it to
neutral. With the swim platform covering the I/O Alpha Drive it
was hard to see if I had any damage and as I floated back into
deeper water I moved into forward and didn't notice anything
unusual so I continued my 2 hour tour of the lake. Only after
retrieving the boat did I see a chunk missing out of one of my
aluminum propeller blades.
D'oh...don't know if that can be repaired or if I have to buy a
new one.

I remembered that during the summer, there was a string of
brightly coloured floating balls stretched along where I went
about 40-50 feet offshore. Now I know why they were there. I
should send a letter to Crosby complaining that he should have
left the 'barrier' out at least until Thanksgiving this Monday.


Ever heard of a chart? I/O's are lake boats.

I'm not an I/O fan, but your claim about "lake boats" is just
another example of your ignorance.

Is lake and river better? I/O's have little to no place in the ocean
for a variety of reasons.


As far as can be told here, your "expertise" in boating is limited to
buying non-collectible firearms from a Ruger auction site. I'm not a
fan of I/O's for several reasons, but I've seen - literally -
thousands of boats of all sizes out on the ocean powered by I/O's.

Less than half of my guns are Rugers but keep "researching" that. Sure,
I've seen a lot of I/O' in the sal****er too. Not thousands. Does
Bayliner even offer an internal cooling system?

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 21:32:01 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:


As far as can be told here, your "expertise" in boating is limited to
buying non-collectible firearms from a Ruger auction site. I'm not a fan
of I/O's for several reasons, but I've seen - literally - thousands of
boats of all sizes out on the ocean powered by I/O's.

The only I/Os we see here are big go fast boats with 7+ liter V-8s in
them or snow birds who have not figured out they have the wrong boat
yet. Even now, the go fast crowd is migrating to trip or quad
outboards. I see a Yellowfin 36 out at the beach now and then running
trip 7 Marines.

I/Os may be fine as a northern trailer boat but they suck in tropical
salt water, especially if they are raw water cooled. The last time I
did a survey, we had 78 boats in my little 120 resident neighborhood.
None are I/Os.
Half are Yamaha, a quarter Mercury and the remaining quarter are
Zekes, 2 smoke OMCs, One Etec and one Honda. I don't remember the last
time I saw an I.O on the river but I am sure it had out of state
numbers on it.
I understand the I/O is pretty popular on the Chesapeake but that may
just be because it is not really salt water and that the are cheap. It
may make sense for a person looking at a 3-4 month season.

On Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:21:34 UTC-3, Alex wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/6/17 8:11 PM, Alex wrote:
True North wrote:
Hate to interrupt all the 'Americans Acting badly With Guns' posts,
but I had a small bit of misfortune yesterday.
I was up boating with my Springer Spaniel on Grand Lake and got a
bit nosy checking out Sidney Crosby's house and his waterfront
access. I was motoring slowly along when I saw the depth gauge
suddenly go from 5-6 feet to just less than 3 feet. Heard the bang
right away so I quickly tilted up the motor and shifted it to
neutral. With the swim platform covering the I/O Alpha Drive it was
hard to see if I had any damage and as I floated back into deeper
water I moved into forward and didn't notice anything unusual so I
continued my 2 hour tour of the lake. Only after retrieving the boat
did I see a chunk missing out of one of my aluminum propeller blades.
D'oh...don't know if that can be repaired or if I have to buy a new
one.

I remembered that during the summer, there was a string of brightly
coloured floating balls stretched along where I went about 40-50
feet offshore. Now I know why they were there. I should send a
letter to Crosby complaining that he should have left the 'barrier'
out at least until Thanksgiving this Monday.


Ever heard of a chart? I/O's are lake boats.

I'm not an I/O fan, but your claim about "lake boats" is just another
example of your ignorance.

Is lake and river better? I/O's have little to no place in the ocean
for a variety of reasons.

Maybe not for sissy boys and girlie men. See a fair number around here.

True North Wrote in message:

Maybe not for sissy boys and girlie men. See a fair number around here.

A lot of those draft dodgers sought protection in Kanaduh. There
are still some living up there, I suppose. Be sure to thank them
for their service when you see them.

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On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 07:58:49 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:

On Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:21:34 UTC-3, Alex wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/6/17 8:11 PM, Alex wrote:
True North wrote:
Hate to interrupt all the 'Americans Acting badly With Guns' posts,
but I had a small bit of misfortune yesterday.
I was up boating with my Springer Spaniel on Grand Lake and got a
bit nosy checking out Sidney Crosby's house and his waterfront
access. I was motoring slowly along when I saw the depth gauge
suddenly go from 5-6 feet to just less than 3 feet. Heard the bang
right away so I quickly tilted up the motor and shifted it to
neutral. With the swim platform covering the I/O Alpha Drive it was
hard to see if I had any damage and as I floated back into deeper
water I moved into forward and didn't notice anything unusual so I
continued my 2 hour tour of the lake. Only after retrieving the boat
did I see a chunk missing out of one of my aluminum propeller blades.
D'oh...don't know if that can be repaired or if I have to buy a new
one.

I remembered that during the summer, there was a string of brightly
coloured floating balls stretched along where I went about 40-50
feet offshore. Now I know why they were there. I should send a
letter to Crosby complaining that he should have left the 'barrier'
out at least until Thanksgiving this Monday.


Ever heard of a chart? I/O's are lake boats.

I'm not an I/O fan, but your claim about "lake boats" is just another
example of your ignorance.

Is lake and river better? I/O's have little to no place in the ocean
for a variety of reasons.

Maybe not for sissy boys and girlie men. See a fair number around here.

There is always that 10% who either didn't get or didn't heed the word.