I made it all of FIVE feet, yes five feet, before I fu*ked up one of my brand new lab finished props this past weekend. I went to the same launch (Metro Beach) that I've been using for the past three years with the Dominator. Never had ANY problems with the launch there. The water was down a little from last year, but only about 6 inches or so.
Anyway, as I was backing out, I hear a grinding noise coming from one of the motors. I quickly pull it out of gear and raise the drive all the way up. Yup, I drove over a gravel pile. I still took the boat out for a spin, but I could tell the bad prop wasn't up to speed. At WOT, the motor with the good prop was spinning at 5300 - 5400 RPM while the motor with the bad prop was struggling just to hit 5000 rpm.
Ya see, the local park services dump a bunch of gravel at the end of the ramps so people don't lose their trailers off the end of the ramps. Next, all those lazt sons of b itches who are too lazy to winch up their 1500 lbs. boat onto their trailer kick all the gravel up into 12" deep shoals at the end of the docks.
Usually, by the start of the summer, the gravel has settled down some. Not by April though. And I'll have the receipts to prove it.
Next person I see powerloading at these docks, I will have a nice bucket of brown sludge that will find their way into both their boat and tow vehicle. There's no excuse for this bull s hit, other than laziness.
Prop Before:
Anyway, as I was backing out, I hear a grinding noise coming from one of the motors. I quickly pull it out of gear and raise the drive all the way up. Yup, I drove over a gravel pile. I still took the boat out for a spin, but I could tell the bad prop wasn't up to speed. At WOT, the motor with the good prop was spinning at 5300 - 5400 RPM while the motor with the bad prop was struggling just to hit 5000 rpm.
Ya see, the local park services dump a bunch of gravel at the end of the ramps so people don't lose their trailers off the end of the ramps. Next, all those lazt sons of b itches who are too lazy to winch up their 1500 lbs. boat onto their trailer kick all the gravel up into 12" deep shoals at the end of the docks.
Usually, by the start of the summer, the gravel has settled down some. Not by April though. And I'll have the receipts to prove it.
Next person I see powerloading at these docks, I will have a nice bucket of brown sludge that will find their way into both their boat and tow vehicle. There's no excuse for this bull s hit, other than laziness.
Prop Before:
