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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,042 mod

  August 2025

  OK I have another one for you.  Ohio Sweet Corn Ice Cream.  Sofa king good, and I never knew it existed!  Purchased at Kelleys Island in Lake Erie.  
  
  
  

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• Dream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,903 mod

  August 2025

  I’ve heard that one, as my sister-in-law used to own a home on Kelley’s.  Originally from Ohio, corn was our big thing! I couldn’t tell you how many meals I had growing up that was just cobs of corn.  Never would you open up a can of corn and call it dinner! 😋

  Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

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• captkevin Member Posts: 521 ✭✭✭

  August 2025

  never heard of it. Now I want some

  2004 232

  2021 Yamaha Fx svho
  

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• Ian Member Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 2025

  Dream_Inn said:

  Ice cream and rum?  What's not to like!!

  The rum! Not my drink.

  Regards,

  Ian

  The Third “B”

  Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club

  https://www.rcyachtclub.com/

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• RiverRunnerNB Member Posts: 28 ✭✭

  August 2025

  
  

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• grouch0jr Member Posts: 184 ✭✭✭

  August 2025

  I regret checking this at work. Very jealous, RiverRunnerNB!

  2006 342EC - Twin Mercruiser 350 MAG MPI Horizons

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,042 mod

  August 2025

  Three pix for today.  This has NOT been a good month for propeller blades on M/V LaRea, but they make interesting stories!  
  
  A couple weeks ago, debris got into the bow thruster and destroyed both props.  That's a kilo-buck to fix:  $200 for new props and $800 for a short haul to install them!
  
  
  

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,042 mod

  August 2025

  Next up -- our Williams 280 tender, which is a jet boat, had some damage to the impeller so we had to replace it.  This pic doesn't LOOK horrible, but blade damage causes air bubbles in the water stream that cools the engine, so it can lead to overheating.  Another kilo-buck down the drain!
  
  
  

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,042 mod

  August 2025 edited September 2025

  And now the pix that will make you cringe:  in Lake Saint Clair, the planet Earth jumped out and struck my props, destroying both of them beyond repair.  The boat is out of the water until my new props arrive, hopefully by next weekend.  Don't ask me to describe what happened ... the memory is too painful!  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Grahamu Member Posts: 919 ✭✭✭

  August 2025

  Hope your shafts check out ok.

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,726 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 2025

  WoW!
  Sorry to see @LaRea ⚓️

  2008 330EC

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• captkevin Member Posts: 521 ✭✭✭

  August 2025

  That is a bad string of luck
  

  2004 232

  2021 Yamaha Fx svho
  

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• PickleRick Member Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 2025

  That won't buff out?

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,726 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 2025

  
  

  2008 330EC

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• johnny44 Confirm Email, Member Posts: 134 ✭✭✭

  August 2025

  @LaRea how fast / what rpm’s?

  Former Boat: 2008 350 EC 
  Current Boat: 2002 Silverton 410 Sport Bridge
  Greenwich Bay, Rhode Island

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,042 mod

  September 2025

  PickleRick said:

  That won't buff out?

  When the lift operator pulled her out of the water, Diane and I said:  "Hmmm, well, I guess maybe THAT'S the problem."  

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• Ian Member Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2025

  Too bad Chris, I can hear the cha-ching from here…

  Regards,

  Ian

  The Third “B”

  Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club

  https://www.rcyachtclub.com/

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• Dream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,903 mod

  September 2025

  Impeller and propellers….definitely need both on a boat for them to work.  Chris, I sure hope you’re getting good waxing in while it’s pulled.  Heck, save money to pay for those props by making your own shoulders sore 😀.
  Here is my pic from yesterday 

  Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

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• RiverRunnerNB Member Posts: 28 ✭✭

  September 2025

  @LaRea, sorry to hear of the prop troubles. On the bright side, looks like hull and shafts of the M/V LaRea are nice and clean and (visually) free of damage.
  
  Kilo-bucks. I suppose since the M/V LaRea (Maritimo) is Australian, the boat bucks are counted in metric, lol?

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• Ian Member Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2025 edited September 2025

  AB$1 = USB$0.65
  
    
  

  Regards,

  Ian

  The Third “B”

  Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club

  https://www.rcyachtclub.com/

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• mattie Member Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭✭

  September 2025

  @LaRea
  Not to beat it to death. What do you figure you hit in Lake St Clair?
  Mostly sand/clay bottom. Unless pilings or some sort of man made structure.

  246BR, 276BR, H310BR current

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,726 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2025

  Also, will insurance cover the cost?

  2008 330EC

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,042 mod

  September 2025

  It was a rock shoal near Jefferson Beach.  The locals all know it's there.  I would have been fine at 8 knots, but I throttled up at exactly the wrong time.  "That's all I have to say about that."
  
  A good friend and fantastic Maritimo captain sent this pic to make me feel better, and it did.  See if you can spot any damage other than the propeller.  The damage was rumored to be nearly $200k.  
  
  
  

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• Grahamu Member Posts: 919 ✭✭✭

  September 2025 edited September 2025

  Shaft, Strut, Prop and maybe hull damage. Possible engine, transmission damage, Engine mounts, rudder, mega $$$$

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• Aqua_Aura Member Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2025

  A friend of a friend on a 1.2 million boat just paid 80k to have the entire AC system replaced to newer better equipment. He decided when it was done to take the boat out with the repair guy just to go for a ride. He ended up running into a rock shoal and did what your picture looks like above. Yikes 😳 
  

  1997 Bayliner 3988

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,726 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2025

  I love our sandy south shore of Long Island!! 😂⚓️
  North Shore is a different story….

  2008 330EC

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,042 mod

  September 2025

  Getting new Teignbridge props from England would have taken 3-4 months, meaning we'd have to winterize here in Detroit and be homeless (boatless) until April.  To shorten a VERY long story, I was able to fit a pair of US-made props, but only by doing some creative engineering.  We're back in the water, and I'll find out tomorrow how they perform. 
  
  
  

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,042 mod

  September 2025

  Guess where I got the props ... new old stock at GLS!  They were built in 2013 for Tiara, and somehow GLS ended up with them.  We rented a van and drove 5 hours to Wisconsin to pick them up.  
  
  

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,726 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2025

  That’s great @LaRea !⚓️

  2008 330EC

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2025

  Awesome! I have stood where you are standing now when I went to pick up the hardtop!

  2008 350 EC on Georgian Bay

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