Yesterday, while fishing, I found myself in some pretty shallow water. The motor was running but I shut it off as soon I realized just how shallow. Anyways, earlier in the day, the motor ran fine. But after a buddy tried to crank the motor (in the mud) I started noticing drastic differences. If I VERY slowly increased the throttle, I would slowly increase speed. BUT, while doing that, if I tried to give it a DECENT bump in throttle, the motor would rev up, and the motor would suddenly act as if it shifted to neutral. If I stopped, put it in neutral, then back into FWD, the motor would propel us again.
Note: This was the maiden voyage for my "newer" boat...my old boat ran beautifully with this same motor. However, I changed the pitch of the motor several times yesterday, to see if i was a cavitation problem. No change.
So, can someone explain a "spun prop" or having a prop "re-hubbed"? I removed the prop expecting to see,maybe, stripped splines or something like that (a stripped out nut & bolt) but I can't see any "obvious" damage.
Note: This was the maiden voyage for my "newer" boat...my old boat ran beautifully with this same motor. However, I changed the pitch of the motor several times yesterday, to see if i was a cavitation problem. No change.
So, can someone explain a "spun prop" or having a prop "re-hubbed"? I removed the prop expecting to see,maybe, stripped splines or something like that (a stripped out nut & bolt) but I can't see any "obvious" damage.
