Does anyone – (besides the obvious of looking/seeing)- have any suggestions how one may see or detect a submerged log, rock etc.?

Thanks

3pointstar

Even if you had a forward looking sonar, at speed you're SOL. Was going between 35-40 mph when I hit a log that was bedded in the murky Fraser River.

Send your buddies out first

OUCH!!!!!-- I trust no one was flung from the boat?

3pointstar

Nope , just a thud and the boat stopped like I thrown the anchor!

It helps to have local knowledge. I know of at least four places within about 15 minutes where I live that are either prop or drive "collectors." As there are various region forums on OSO I would chat with someone who might be able to share knowledge. As far as logs and other debris, driving your go-fast boat under 30 m.p.h. gives you a fighting chance (like that's ever going to happen...).

I would avoid going out right after a big reason storm. Around here after a big storm the lake becomes full of logs and junk.

You can even be in friendly deep waters and still hit something. I was in the Baltimore shipping channel (at least 60 feet deep) and hit something so hard that it nearly ripped the bottom of the boat off. Didn't go back to look for what it was. I was really looking around the boat to see what I was going to take swimming with me. The water was coming in that fast. Made it to the ramp (it was close) and found a large section of the bottom was only being held together by the flotation foam. The boat never saw the water again.

use the force.....

My skeg doubles as a rock/log detector....