TOPIC: Captain Crunch!

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I knew a guy in Ocean City, MD who used to come back into the dock that way in reverse at about 3,000 RPMs in a 36' Topaz. Watching him come in was something that caught everyone's attention. One one particular day, I watched him throw both engines into reverse and wring both prop shafts in half! He hit the floating dock hard but the only real damage was a cracked transom...and a deflated ego. The local "problem diver" was called in and after about an hour, he managed to find both wheels which had traveled quite a ways port and starboard, not dropping straight down. To the rest of us who were sick and tired of having our boats rocked and rolled every time he docked, it seemed like a good case of "what goes around comes around." He spent weeks on the hard waiting for new prop shafts and having them installed. After that, he came in like a "normal" person but from then on, he was known as "Wheels."

Thats a good one.