Ken Paydon
Cadet
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2002
- Messages
- 8
Greetings all... I have been registered for months now, and have enjoyed reading the forums. There are some scary-smart boat people here, man o man I thought I was a boating fanatic!<br />For background, I've got a '99 Viper Coral 19' fishnski with a 175 Merc EFI... the family and I live and work in the Missouri Ozarks, and boat Bull Shoals, Taneycomo, and TableRock lakes. I love to read about boating destinations on this board and in Trailer Boats mag, but I gotta tell you, the Ozarks is a boating paradise!<br /><br />Okay, propeller guards... the Mrs. was listening to NPR as they covered the latest in "lawyerly" pursuits. Apparently Mercury Marine is being sued for selling a dangerous product(outboard motor) because they do not come standard with propeller guards. Listeners were then treated to a number of horror stories, complete with titillating detail I'm sure. So now the Mrs. is outraged that big corporate America (Mercury) is needlessly killing and maiming and perhaps even looting and pillaging
, and my beautiful boat needs one of these abominations.<br />Can anyone help with a cold hard fact that propeller guards cannot be used with bass boat hulls, or over 40mph, or some other deal breaker? please? thanks very much!<br /><br />Yours in Boating, Forsythian