Originally Posted by Brian Carlton

I touched down the starboard prop on one of the ferries just briefly..........in sand...........on a Saturday afternoon (weekends are the heaviest).

It folded the very tip on one of the four blades. The wheel is all brass..........very soft..........and it takes nothing to damage it.

Hauling the 75' boat in the middle of the parking lot on Sunday morning and changing the 34" wheel was definitely not what the mechanic wanted to do that morning. But, by noon, the boat was back in the water for the Sunday afternoon rush hour (actually 5 hours stretching from 4:00 to 9:00).