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.