"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:14:17 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

LOL, Harry you sure seem to be hung up on this transom thing.

You noticed that also. Methinks he is a mite sensitive perhaps.

Not to worry though, Harry has told us many times how experienced he
is and there's no reason to doubt it that I know of.

http://www.newsargus.com/news/archiv...escued_at_sea/



My comments on this transom thing is based on personal experience. I
swamped a small boat once, back in my teenaged years and it was on a fresh
water pond, flat as a pancake with no other influences on the boat other
than my stupid operation of it.

I was pulling a skier and she fell, but didn't immediately let go of the tow
line. I immediately made a hard turn, while pulling the throttle back. The
resultant wake wave hit the boat on the stern quarter and filled the boat
with well over a foot of water in a nanosecond. There was no way I could
move it with the engine without more water pouring over the open transom.
The engine then quit, the boat became extremely unstable, in danger of
flipping so I slid into the water. The skier and I then swam back to the
nearby shore, slowly pulling the swamped boat with us with the tow line.

When it happens on a small boat, it happens fast.

Eisboch