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I've been boating on the Chesapeake Bay for over 20 years and yesterday while maneuvering to anchor I had the starboard engine quit on me and would not stay running while in gear. The Yamaha display showed the engine blinking in red and was not responsive to moving the throttle from forward to neutral to reverse and would not stay running. I thought about reseting the whole system to see if the glitch cleared but decided against it while I had one good engine. I limped back home on the port engine and lifted the boat out of the water on my home dock lift and found that for the first time for me I'd wrapped a crab pot buoy and rope around the prop. It was pretty easy to cut it off the prop and drive housing and an initial check at the dock seemed to show that everything was working as it should - I could switch the outboard from forward to neutral to reverse all working as it should. That's my embarrassing admission, now the question:
Is there any chance any damage was done to the final drive when the buoy and rope seized up the prop? It seems OK but should I have it inspected or what has been your experience if you've had a similar misfortune?
This is the Yamaha 200 digital drive/Helm EX controlled outboards.
Is there any chance any damage was done to the final drive when the buoy and rope seized up the prop? It seems OK but should I have it inspected or what has been your experience if you've had a similar misfortune?
This is the Yamaha 200 digital drive/Helm EX controlled outboards.