A little help for a newbie

[VENOM03]

I was out on my boat yesterday and we were pulling my son around on the tube. Boat ran great all day. All the sudden I lost power and the boat was at 2000 rpm but sound like it was at 7000 rpm. The back of the boat was low in the water so I though oh crap are we sinking?!!! I shut the engines down checked to see if we were taking on water and nothing bone dry. After about 5 min I put two of my passengers on another boat and I started the boat back up no problem and rode it all the way back across the lake probably 20min or so to the ramp with no problems even at high speed. Any thoughts what may have caused this? 2003 Yamaha LX210

 

[fatboyroy]

Impeller probably ingested debris that caused temporary cavitation.

 

[jdbakerucf]

yep... I'm thinking you sucked something up into the impeller or got something stuck on the impeller grate that cleared itself when you shut down the engines and then you were back in business.

 

[VENOM03]

yep... I'm thinking you sucked something up into the impeller or got something stuck on the impeller grate that cleared itself when you shut down the engines and then you were back in business.

Thank you for the reply. Would that also cause the back of the boat to ride low in the water?

 

[VENOM03]

Impeller probably ingested debris that caused temporary cavitation.

Thanks man for responding

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

The only time I saw the back of a boat suck in trash and get low in the water it had an anchor rope with an anchor attached so there must have been something large to pull the back of the boat down very odd situation

 

[MidnightRider]

From what you are saying I'd say you have no worries. Like others said, you probably sucked up some small item that eventually blew through. As far as the back of the boat being lower, can't say, but I do know sometimes we don't really realize how something looks or feels until there is a problem and then we are hyper focused on everything and are like "I never saw that before" or "I never noticed it was like that before". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯