Tom Maslar
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2011
- Messages
- 137
I had to get my boat out of marina on Nov. 15 2018 or be subject to fine/impoundment. Nov. 15 comes: early freak nor'easter forecast, three to four foot seas, 15 to 20 mph winds= no problem. I get to dock, 1st quarter moon but there is four inches of water under boat. No joke! Four inches!! Wind must have sucked the tide low. There are two boats left in marina and the notice to vacate by fifteenth is on the pilon at each boat, listing all the bad things that will happen because you work for a living. (It snows 4.5 inches that day. My out drive is buried in muck. I decide to trim up and cowboy it out to avoid a fine or worse. I step on my vinyl seat and it cracks into pieces from the cold. This is a bad idea. I have to navigate a mile from port o call to Homan's creek where my truck and trailer are waiting at a ramp. After pulling boat out of slip, I go about twenty feet...great! Almost out of marina, I can do this.....I hear a boom at the stern drive and the boat starts vibrating...no real power at full throttle....make it to the loading ramp and about ten feet from ramp I hear another boom and the boat stops vibrating...sounds perfect. At home, prop is bent, needed to replace anyway. My question: why the two noises and change?.....what was that?