woodrat
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So, it probably qualifies as a SHT, but I will post here anyway because i need some info.
Coming back from a successful ocean fishing trip today, and almost back to the ramp, I hit an unknown submerged object and just trashed my outdrive. I had cut the end of a jetty kind of close, but had made it all the way past the jetty, and was in 48 feet of water when there was this horrible noise and all forward motion stopped. I went back to see the top gimbal pin sheared off and the drive sort of hanging at a funny angle. (funny, ha, ha...) Anyway, I dropped the kicker into place and started heading in without even a thought to the fact that I might be sinking. Well, a few moments later, I realized I was standing in several inches of water that was rapidly getting deeper. Ack!
Long story short, I mayday'ed the coast guard and they sent a tow boat out to help. (Not before several different idiots walked all over my radio transmission asking the CG for a bar report on channel 16!) I got towed back and bailed/pumped out and the CG helped get the boat onto the trailer. Many, many thanks to them! Had I sunk, I could have swam to the jetty, but they saved my boat from a certain watery grave! I still don't know what I hit. I looked at my GPS track later, and I was 150-200' past the jetty and should have been in open and deep water according to the charts and the depth sounder.
However, now I need a new outdrive in a bad and urgent kind of way. The boat is a 72, so it is a pre alpha. Most of what I see for sale is alpha of one kind or another. Can the alpha be put in in place of the old style? What would be involved in making that swap? Any advantages to that over the old style? Anyone in the PNW have an old style 1.98R pre alpha drive (complete with gimbal!) that they want to sell ?
Coming back from a successful ocean fishing trip today, and almost back to the ramp, I hit an unknown submerged object and just trashed my outdrive. I had cut the end of a jetty kind of close, but had made it all the way past the jetty, and was in 48 feet of water when there was this horrible noise and all forward motion stopped. I went back to see the top gimbal pin sheared off and the drive sort of hanging at a funny angle. (funny, ha, ha...) Anyway, I dropped the kicker into place and started heading in without even a thought to the fact that I might be sinking. Well, a few moments later, I realized I was standing in several inches of water that was rapidly getting deeper. Ack!
Long story short, I mayday'ed the coast guard and they sent a tow boat out to help. (Not before several different idiots walked all over my radio transmission asking the CG for a bar report on channel 16!) I got towed back and bailed/pumped out and the CG helped get the boat onto the trailer. Many, many thanks to them! Had I sunk, I could have swam to the jetty, but they saved my boat from a certain watery grave! I still don't know what I hit. I looked at my GPS track later, and I was 150-200' past the jetty and should have been in open and deep water according to the charts and the depth sounder.
However, now I need a new outdrive in a bad and urgent kind of way. The boat is a 72, so it is a pre alpha. Most of what I see for sale is alpha of one kind or another. Can the alpha be put in in place of the old style? What would be involved in making that swap? Any advantages to that over the old style? Anyone in the PNW have an old style 1.98R pre alpha drive (complete with gimbal!) that they want to sell ?
