Hit an underwater thing

echandler1971echandler1971 Member Posts: 237 ✭✭✭
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I was on the maiden voyage for the season. I was traveling from my winter marina to my summer marina. I wasn’t but 1 mile from the winter ‘marina when I hit something underwater. My starboard outdrive went completely nuts and the engine started going crazy. There was a terrible smell of burnt plastic. There was black stuff coming out in the water. I opened up the engine compartment, and I could hear water pouring in by the bucket. I managed to limp back one mile on the port engine with no power steering. 
I made it back into the slings, but my transom assembly is blown  out. Thank god for the bow thruster (Rinker 360). Mind you I replaced my transom assemblies two years ago and the outdrives last year. . 
Insurance is supposedly covering it all. No deductible. Still, I’m shellshocked. 
Dan of Steel
'05 Rinker 360 Fiesta Vee
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  • echandler1971echandler1971 Member Posts: 237 ✭✭✭

    Dan of Steel
    '05 Rinker 360 Fiesta Vee
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  • grouch0jrgrouch0jr Member Posts: 153 ✭✭✭
    Horrible luck. Glad you made it back safely.
    2006 342EC - Twin Mercruiser 350 MAG MPI Horizons
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  • captkevincaptkevin Member Posts: 502 ✭✭✭
    Good thing you were able to make it back to the marina. 
    2004 232
    2021 Yamaha Fx svho
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,021 mod
    Ugh.  I'm glad to hear your bilge pump was able to keep up.  What a rotten day.  
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,685 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WoW, could’ve ended way worse!
    2008 330EC
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  • earl1z19earl1z19 Member Posts: 370 ✭✭✭
    That's a wicked crack! also my worst fear. 
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can't tell from tge picture- is the boat transom itself busted out or the merc stuff? Crazy, glad your family is safe.
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  • davidbrooksdavidbrooks Member Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭✭
    @echandler1971 glad to hear you made it back okay. I had something similar happen a few years back. I was going in reverse, and hit something and it completely snapped the out drive off. It was literally only Hanging On by the bellows. When I got hauled out they told me that little piece of rubber was the only thing that kept the boat from sinking.
    It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere!
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  • echandler1971echandler1971 Member Posts: 237 ✭✭✭
    Still dealing with insurance ****. Progressive adjuster doesn't understand salt life. He saw "multiple layers of paint" on stuff I said was basically new, because it was all basically new. I had to send him pictures of the parts on the boat before they scuffed up the sheen and fancy factory paint and painted it over with black antifouling spray paint each season. They will need to yank the engine, again, to replace the TA. I'm hoping to get this done quickly. I've seen the process already :) in detail.
    Dan of Steel
    '05 Rinker 360 Fiesta Vee
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