Did know there was such a thing RC.Reel Cowboy wrote:SHOWBOAT wrote: I hope you weren't running too fast or you might have more than a prop and skeg to worry about.
Seriously though, I knew better than to be running where I was, the way that I was.
A buddy and I barely got off the trailer at Fenholloway Sunday morning. We eased our way out touching mud bottom a couple times during the negative tide. Fishing was slow, and the fish we caught barely fought back. However, by 3:00 we somehow managed two limits of trout in the boat, and we had released a really fat over-slot red.
Running back in I was about a mile from the ramp, nearing the River entrance, and I thought I was going around the "little bar" by the chicane in the channel markers. I had the jack plate all the way up and was running between 15-20 mph. My Xpress isn't a tunnel, but the gear case is about even with the bottom of the haul when the jack plate is up. I apparently found one section of the bar a couple inches higher than the others (and wider than my GPS lines show) as I heard contact and found all three tips on the PowerTech blades bent and about 3-4" of the skeg is broken clean. The haul never touched bottom, so the structure couldn't have been that high.
Ideled back up river about 4 mph and got the boat on trailer....barely. Tomorrow I'l be visiting Parkway to drop off both the boat and truck (mirror replacement from the rogue lunch time deer); I hope they have volume discounts. I imagine this one will end up in the hands of Progressive. We'll put up some pics tonight.
