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Originally Posted by Jidge
My depth finder was reading 5'. The draft of my boat is 3'2", with outdrive I'm probably right around the 5'. So its an expensive lesson learned here for me. Hopefully enough people see this so as not to make the same mistake. The boat still drives good but I'm still going to change the rear prop so I don't wear out a bearing from vibration.
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I was always under the impression that the draft of a boat was the depth needed for the drive to clear underwater obstacles; in some cases, I've seen 2 numbers quoted, one for drive "up" (trailered) and one for drive "down". So in your case, if your draft is stated as 38" (3'2"), under normal circumstances I would expect 5' to be plenty of depth to avoid striking an underwater object. Of course, who knows what "normal circumstances" really are. But I feel your pain, it sucks to destroy a prop!