To my knowledge no. However, the boat was used by the Porter family as their demo for a couple of months - they put about 25 hours on it. I guess they could have done something to it, but that's the only possiblity I know of.

Well with the history questionable then it is possible that the blade was heated to be re-worked. I don't believe that this has occured from running the boat, it appears to be the result of a repair of some sort. Hope this helps.

Julie

Wow,

It looks like some one heated the blade to straighten it and never buffed it back out. The fact that it has changed back and forth in color is very strange. I'd like to see a Rockwell hardness test done. Mercury Racing does most all the Fastech props. I can see the code on one of the pictures. We would take raw castings prior to media finish and make them directly to Lab spec. per Thunderbird / Formulas orders. It is possible one group of pourings were bad but that would mean there are others out there too.

I never saw that in 10 years at Mercury other than when a blade was heated with a torch.

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