Originally Posted by BhamFred
watched a fella knock the lower unit clean off right in front of Howtons Camp one day. Can happen anywhere there are stumps/logs


It can sure enough happen anywhere. A little while after Nashville and the surrounding areas had all that flooding back in n 2010, a cousin of mine was going down the Cumberland river and hit a submerged log in his stratos. Not sure the speed, but he was moving on pretty good. It ripped the motor clean off the transom and it somehow flipped it in the boat with him. This was an 18' with a 115. He had some broken bones, but walked away ok other than that.