Free Wheel or Lock the Prop in Gear

[four winds]

Originally Posted by captain58sailin

Has anyone done any research on the drag of 4 blade props?

In posts #8 an 12 are links to this.

You may be interested in other info on Maine Sails site. Good stuff, well presented.

[goboatingnow]

I did have an issue once doing this when I tried to take it out of gear it stuck. Took some jingling on the shifter to get it to pop back out. We were sailing along at about 6.5 and I suspect it had to do with the force on the prop jamming something up.

yeah often happens , start it in reverse and then shift , rather then trying to free it stopped

Dave

[stevensuf]

or if you just slow down it will usually pop back out of reverse once the pressure of the motion is off the prop