What is the longest distance you have had to drive your boat in reverse?
11-20-2020, 09:57 AM
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I think the type of exhaust you have is pertinent question. Mechanically, in particular on a Bravo, it’s all the same parts going forwards or backwards and running a Bravo at full speed backwards is as simple as moving a cable and a different prop.
But on my boat with a molded in swim deck, if I reverse too hard it tries to shove the water up the pipes.
But on my boat with a molded in swim deck, if I reverse too hard it tries to shove the water up the pipes.
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11-20-2020, 11:41 AM
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A long time ago....I was in the family 13 foot Thunderhawk tri-hull with a 25HP Envinrude long-shaft far out in the Passamaquoddy Bay New Brunswick with my Mom and baby sister. They were nervous boaters, I was a naïve teenager in command. Lost forward gear on a out running tide and if you know the tides, currents, weather in this area that was a bad situation. Reverse lasted about 2 miles before that went too, shift shaft broke. Luckily, weather was good, a weekend, and we flagged down another pleasure boat. Another 3 mile tow behind a smoky 2 stroke of the kind Samaritans' got us back to the dock. Never got my mom in the boat again! No cell phones back then and didn't have a radio. Ignorance of youth!
11-20-2020, 02:14 PM
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11-21-2020, 05:45 PM
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11-21-2020, 06:21 PM
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It's not a big deal. I had to back a BRAND new Active Thunder down a fairway that was INCREDIBLY tight with pointy go-fast boats on to the port, and props from flats boats on lifts to the starboard at the Tiki Bar during the FPC Miami Boat Show Poker Run, in front of God and everyone, and our slip for the weekend was right next to the bar/pool table in the Tiki Bar; and I had to angle the boat into the slip.
Talk about an audience!
If you have a boat with staggered engines you will have a little harder time controlling it. But you will still be fine.
Do you have a single engine boat or twin? If you have a twin, just leave the wheel straight, and turn around in your bolster to face backward, and use the shifters to back it all the way down like a skid-steer.
Talk about an audience!
If you have a boat with staggered engines you will have a little harder time controlling it. But you will still be fine.
Do you have a single engine boat or twin? If you have a twin, just leave the wheel straight, and turn around in your bolster to face backward, and use the shifters to back it all the way down like a skid-steer.
