I have a BRAVO 28 that came off my Scarab that has probably hundreds of hours on it that has been on my Daytona now for probably 30 hours without a flaw.

Made on a Monday. Lol

B38 you should also consider a BBlades 4-Speed if you want more bowlift. We have an old, heavy straight bottom boat as well. Made a world of difference for us.

Love your Bertram by the way, My dad rigged two of them working at Keith Hazell's shop in Ft. Lauderdale in the early 80s. Coolest boats ever.

Thank you,
​​​​​ I will look into BBlades.

Did it multiple times on my '42 Fountain. They were surfacing though with the -2 Imcos. Last time I did it the center drive tossed a whole blade at WOT @ 5800 rpms. At 95 mph we felt nothing until I backed off and right away I knew something bad happened because it shook the whole boat. Thought I blew a drive. Shifted fine at idle so I ruled that out. Shut it off and came in on two. Just the vibration/harmonics from running it wide open loosened every bolt in the top cap, rear cap, and the six bolts holding the drive on. Actually lost the drive stud with the drive lock nut on it. Got to the dock and had an oil slick and my day was ruined. $3800 and a few days later we were back in action.

I've had this happen also. This is a Merc Racing lab finished 32 Maximus and I'm running XR's ITS so it does surface. I was told it's a fatigue fracture and has nothing to do with the casting or defects...

bummer if no warranty with HP props. I sent my cracked prop back to Merc, hope they warranty it. Sucks if they dontd. $hit ain't cheap.

All of you guys that got away with only a broken prop blade...
...are LUCKY.

This was my lower after a blade tore off over a few passes, and sliced up the capitation plate, anode, and my drive shower pickup.

All I can say is wow!

Props are like tires guys. Pizz pound them and they might fail.

Hell years ago when I spit a blade off a prop, spent some time looking at the thing, then all agreed WTF, bad deal bud, better get a new one coming.