Is 3'10" too much draw for

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Originally posted by HOGAN

I draw over 4'. At low tide, my slip can be as shallow as 3'. When I have some water, I start her up and put one engine in gear at a time to blow out the area under my props. I now have two nice holes under my props that never get shallower than 5'.

We don't come and go during the 2 hours before and 2 hours after low tide. It sucks to be beholden to the tide Gods, but we love our marina and don't want to go anywhere else.

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Funny I said the same thing and yet this year I'm moving to deeper water. Waiting for tides sucks there are no if and or buts about it. My big fear was I would get an emergency call and I would not be able to make it there in a reasonable time because I had to wait for tides to come back.
 
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I mentioned to the guys (volvo and mercruiser certified mechanics) that you were looking at IPS, and they all said NO WAY on the south shore
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As careful as I am I do occasionally bump bottom at some point going in or out of my canal and I've hit things backing into a slip at Watch Hill a couple times. A couple times I really expected damage (stalled an engine once hitting bottom at my own dock and hit something at Watch Hill that sounded hard for example), but despite that nibral props and straight drives have proven to be pretty forgiving with our soft mud bottom. While it's rare if you're careful, when you're much over 4' the occasional bump is going to happen. I wonder if the counter-rotating props and pods would handle the occasional bump at idle speed as well? I'd be curious why the mechanics said they were a bad choice for the south shore.

John
 
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