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Originally Posted by robmac
If you look at the pic in entry #3 posted by APS,that piece of floating debris is going to do more that ding a prop or a skeg. We tend to forget sometimes how early it is in the season when it's 70 + degrees that it after all is only April 2-4th.
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Is that something really floating?? Looks like rocks at the bottom left of the pic, maybe something along shore. Sometimes the pics that APS finds and posts can be a bit misleading.
Chances are hitting a small log or the typical piece of floating debris is not going to pierce a hull. Often times the boat bumps it and drives it down or out of the way. I have hit plenty of debris in my years of boating and never lost a prop or damaged an outdrive due to a piece of wood in the water. Of course there are exceptions to the rule. Common sense is needed.