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Launched my boat yesterday with no issues. A few hours later, the current in my river was at mid-tide and flows extremely fast. I was in the engine room and the starboard shaft started rotating and then eventually the port shaft. Boat is a 2005 Luhrs 36 open with twin cummins 6c 8.3’s with hydraulic transmissions and dripless shaft seals. This is the the third year with the boat and I do not recall the shafts ever turning in current. Mind you this is one of the fastest rivers on an outgoing on the east coast but it’s like that every year. There seems to be no consensus on the feedback I have gotten thus far about whether or not this is ok for the seals because there isn’t a flow of water into the seals with the engines off other than the residual water that is in the feed hose. They eventually stopped turning when the tide slowed down.
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