Calling BBlades- great day til this
 

Great day on the water today, finally saw some performance boats off Lauderdale and Miami, had some fun with a couple of them! Water was perfect, watched a US Navy sub do some manuevers off Port Everglades, ran from Hillsboro to Port of Miami, back to Boca Inlet, back out to Hillsboro and down to Shooters for a late lunch. Felt something different after I came out of Boca Inlet, but it was very minor and more of just a "feeling" something was happening. Ran the rest of the day watching the gauges, got back to the marina, when it was on the lift looked at it and holy crap! Missing a 2 inch section of my starboard prop! Never felt like I hit anything, never really had a vibration, can't see where anything else was hit, could it be cavitation that caused this? Anybody know if it can be fixed, or will it have to be replaced? Guys at the marina said they can weld a piece on, then cut and lab it back but I have never heard of this being possible. Heres a link to the pic, if someone wants to post it feel free. Looking forward to you guys opinions!
http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...%20ZR/prop.jpg

Mike at hulls prop. Seen him do amazing repairers on race labed props

How old is the prop? They don't last forever, HP,rough seas
run the dog chit out of it will shorting the props life!! All metals have a cycle life seems like
you reached it. Fix it for a spare, buy a new one and you won't be broke
on your next trip!!

The way it is folded over in the front I am guessing you hit something.

Boat has 56 hours on it after today, and is a 2008. I bought it 2 mos ago with 24 hrs on it. I have a feeling I hit something in Boca Inlet, it is shallow at some areas, but is a mostly sand bottom. Oh well, as you said, ill see if I can fix it for a spare, luckily I didnt have both of them get torn up!

Thanks Tom, have a number? Couldnt find him in google

I wouldn't even bother getting it repaired. Post the pic in Prop Talk section to get BBlades attention. Not sure how much he frequents the rest of sections.

Welcome to High x-dimension, Bravo props are not of quality to run that high on the surface, this happens a lot.

That's why #6 props are in a different price range than Bravo props.

I do not think that is repairable. how would you duplicate the missing piece?

Throw it away. This break is in the high stress area of the blade. It will be expensive to repair and it will break again.

Generally what they do is weld a new piece of steel on, then work it down to the original shape. As Brad says though, it is at an area where it would probably happen again due to the stress on the weld. Anybody have a spare 34p Maximus they want to sell cheap, lol

Julie@throttleup.

You didn't hit anything. Same thing happened to me twice.

Julie said she does not work on Bravo stuff anymore as of about 2 years ago.

It's an anchor now.

Garbage!! Had the same thing happen to me, fixed it and it broke off the second time out.

Looks like a great white:grinser010:

Well then maybe Scott should buy HER props...

Grind the other two blades down to match that one and rebalance. Who knows maybe you are on to something !

It was a 34p Maximus off an XR drive w sportsmaster lower, I have heard of this happening on some props before, anyone seen this happen regularly on Maximus? And could it have been caused by cavitation?

It's too much stress on a prop not design to have it in that nature.

funny you say that,,,i was thinking the other day about a six blade prop,,,where three blades are one size and the other three blades shorter

i would bet this started with a very small hair line crack..

Hering does them that way i think..