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Thank you for your input. Obviously you are familiar with Marion. I maybe misstated re turning the prop, the prop didn't just spin on the hub but resisted enough so it felt like as you turned it with great effort a 1/2 a turn, you were actually turning over the engine. it didn't spin over easily. However when driving the boat in gear there was no increase in forward thrust, just a lot of prop spinning, splashing. Could only limp back to dock at very low speed, no where near getting up on plane. Does that make any sense to you?