Just felt a thud underneath us...

[Drake]

Same thing happened to us recently on the Tombigbee. It turned out to be a log floating just below the surface.

[gaston]

Could have been one of those cats people keep on there boat

[Drake]

Originally Posted by gaston

Could have been one of those cats people keep on there boat

Pretty good use for a cat.

[sdowney717]

Maybe the seaweed was so thick it clumped up and the prop whacked it onto the hull.

I ran over a crab float once and it made an awful sounding thumpy bump.

I also ran over a submerged rock and curled my prop edge over.

[rwidman]

There re a lot of things floating or semi-floating in the water and at some point, you will hit one. Logs, of course, other debris, manatees, alligators and other marine life, crab or other trap markers (sometimes pulled just beneath the surface by the current) and even dead bodies.

Keeping a sharp eye on where you're going helps to avoid these but sometimes they are not visible from the surface.

[CDreamer]

Originally Posted by WesK

Logs, of course, other debris, manatees, alligators and other marine life, crab or other trap markers (sometimes pulled just beneath the surface by the current) and even dead bodies.

So perhaps both thumps were dead bodies....
Is the Mob active around Monterey Bay?

[Tunajoe]

mola mola?
I've hit a few over the years

[rwidman]

Originally Posted by CDreamer

So perhaps both thumps were dead bodies....
Is the Mob active around Monterey Bay?

A friend of mine was at a marina on the face dock and when he went to leave there was a dead body wedged against his boat. He called the police and they kept him for several hours asking questions.

This, of course, kept him from returning to his home marina on time and required him to take off a day of work.