Starboard engine (off) trimmed up slightly while port delivers power to get home. Don't push it too hard... Photo credit: Deep See Visuals
Today’s engine technology is truly amazing. Motors run longer, faster, and more dependably than ever before. Engine breakdowns that we used to experience at least every half a dozen offshore trips, now we often go a half dozen years without. Be that as it may, as long as men make motors, they are going to break sometimes.
Spinning a prop hub or picking up line (think floating braid here) hopelessly wrapped around a prop are among the biggest reason you may find yourself immobilized. I highly recommend you have a towing service membership, especially if you head offshore on a single engine. I have talked with Sea Tow from 70 miles off Jacksonville, so if you need...