No, the first weekend that I had my boat (the second day actually) we were cruising across the lake and it was a little rough but I've been in worse, My throttle cable was really binding up and hard to work easily. My friend next to me wanted to try the gas pedal while I was driving so I let him have it next thing he's tapping me on the shoulder telling me the throttle is stuck. I took over and tried to jam my heel on the pedal but it was really stuck good, so I just shut it off. Got the pedal unstuck and got ready to take off and all I could do was turn left, and suddenly I had a water leak! think.gif Had to swim the boat to the nearest bank and check it out and the cavitation plate on the left side of the boat was almost ripped off, but it wasn't I had a giant rudder that I didn't have before. I was trying to just take the whole thing off so that maybe I could get to the nearest boat ramp a mile away, but it was the one the real rudder went through. Long story short, went out and bought a sheet of aluminum, and had a shop use the others for templates and haven't had any more cavitation plate woes since. Had enough aluminum left over to make another set of plates and some support brackets for the inside of the transom (which I still haven't got around to making yet). Basically what I got was the same thing they sell at Glenwood, but I bought it for scrap price instead of their "Break out another thousand" price. :smile30:
