In article , "Grumman581"
writes:

I find
myself having to move the wheel from one side to the other quite often to
get it to track a relatively straight line at idle speeds like when you're
lining it up to load it on a trailer

I have experienced that with my outboard. There was a long thread about that
last year--the conclusion was that that was not unusual. The Christina River
in Wilmington, Del, is no wake throughout the city--a couple of miles, I would
guess. At no wake, to maintain a straight course, I have to adjust the course
every 30 or 40 feet. I'm talking about moving the wheel no more than an inch
or two. I tell myself that it's because I'm on an unstable platform and, at
slow speeds, cannot override the instability of that platform.

Don't know if it's true, but that's what I tell myself.

Frank Bell

On 09 Jul 2003 19:31:00 GMT, (Rich Stern) wrote:

"In most cases" is the problem. "In most cases" a drunk driver doesn't kill
anyone, but there are still plenty of cases where they do. While boats are
slower and there is more space between them, boats operate in an environments
that are far less forgiving once trouble shows up.

I can recall two fatal collisions in recent years here in Iowa. One
was, in fact, caused by a drunk, who simply ran down a guy, and kept
going. Hit the man in the head with the sterndrive. The other case the
cops were running at high speed close to shore which is against the
law. They ran flat out into a designated anchorage and killed a guy in
his bunk, and tried to blame him for it. Said he wasn't showing
lights, but they are not required in an designated anchorage.

Casady

On Jun 16, 9:14*am, Richard Casady

The other case the
cops were running at high speed close to shore which is against the
law. They ran flat out into a designated anchorage and killed a guy in
his bunk, and tried to blame him for it. Said he wasn't showing
lights, but they are not required in an designated anchorage.

Casady


didn't that happen just last year?