96 Volvo Penta stuck in forward

[Gvsmith17]

Boat was running fine all weekend. Went to pull up to the dock and the drive would not come out of gear. Throttle still works. Try to put it in revere and it still goes forward and accelerates. Seems like it is somehow stuck in forward and won't come out.

 

[Sparkinator]

Check your controls at the helm. The drive cable has probably come loose and it isn’t shifting your drive from forward to reverse. It happened on my boat when loading on the trailer once. When I went to slow down by popping it into reverse, it didn’t swap and just went faster in forward. Hit the trailer pretty hard. I bent the prop on the boat ramp. Pretty bad but could have been a lot worse.
May just be a cotter pin that came out and allowed the cable to come free.

 

[Gvsmith17]

Check your controls at the helm. The drive cable has probably come loose and it isn’t shifting your drive from forward to reverse. It happened on my boat when loading on the trailer once. When I went to slow down by popping it into reverse, it didn’t swap and just went faster in forward. Hit the trailer pretty hard. I bent the prop on the boat ramp. Pretty bad but could have been a lot worse.
May just be a cotter pin that came out and allowed the cable to come free.

That's where the problem was. The plastic tab on the shifter cable where it clamps broke. Was able to fix it using some epoxy. Thanks!!