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Originally Posted by cillovely
Our boat is a bit older and shifting from forward to nuetral to reverse can be sticky and hard to do. What I've learned to do is just go very slow, line it up and hit nuetral once I feel we can glide in. Then I grab a piling if I can and hold it while others tie it up. If no piling I use the hook on the boat to hold it.
And if I were alone I'd do the line trick.
And I've been pretty lucky with the lake where we've gone and not come across too much wind. But I have had to do it in Boston Harbor which was not easy, but managed.
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What kind of power package do you have? The symptoms you describe are signs of a worn out lower shift cable on a stern drive. That is a wear item and if indeed worn out, replacing it will make it shift like butter.
If you have a Mercruiser Alpha drive, you run the risk of getting it stuck in gear under power, which can be a bad thing while docking...