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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Initially Posted - 09/25/2001 :  04:34:30  Show Profile
Help!! Last Sunday while returning from a sail I was motoring to our marina. All of a sudden it sounded like someone had shifted the outboard into neutral and opened the throttle all the way. My hull speed did not increase. In fact we slowed down quite a
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Response Posted - 09/25/2001 :  08:27:24  Show Profile
Rick,

i do it all the time, first I attach a safety rope from the engine to the stern pulpit (over the rail not under). Next i loosen the clamps and lift straight up off the engine mount and place the engine onto the stern pulpit. I normally try to po
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Response Posted - 09/25/2001 :  09:03:43  Show Profile
What happened is that a shear pin went (cheap & easy to fix) or the drive shaft went (not cheap, and must be done at a shop). I had the latter happen last year. I lashed my dinghy across the stern and used a safety line attached to the engine. After disco
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Bill Holcomb
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Response Posted - 09/25/2001 :  10:25:27  Show Profile
Hey Rick,

Can you back your boat into your slip so that the outboard is above part of the "V" notched out for the bow of your boat? My slip is set up this way, so removal of the outboard is actually accomplished from the dock. Yippee!!

Bill Holcom
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Bristle
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Response Posted - 09/25/2001 :  21:28:34  Show Profile
I removed and replaced a 4-stroke Honda tying up along side the dock so that the transom was as in as close as possible and the bow was out. With the bracket up, and after locking my safety cable over the stern rail, from the dock, I was able to easily l
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FrankV
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Response Posted - 09/25/2001 :  21:43:43  Show Profile
I have not tried this, but could you use the boom with a stout topping lift to move the motor around? Seems like it would work well.
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Response Posted - 09/26/2001 :  08:42:51  Show Profile
Two other possibilities, sometimes a plastic bag wraps itself around the prop and the resulting cavitation sometimes increases rotation and at the same time loss of speed. Wouldn't it be great if it were that simple? Some props are rubber mounted to the
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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Response Posted - 09/26/2001 :  15:23:02  Show Profile
Many thanks to Robin, Charles, Bill, Dave, Frank & Val for thier responses.
Went down to the boat this morning and rigeed a saftey line and lifted the outboard up and into the boat with no problems.
Now to find out what the problem is????
Thanks again,
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