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Message: <blockquote data-quote="freeisforme" data-source="post: 517272" data-attributes="member: 34644">On my boat, when I kicked the motor all the way out, the prop was only 1/2" below the water's surface which gave me a ton of cavitation and little forward movement. The boat was 12ft Duracraft from the early 70's.Most of the water we have here is shallow but moving, in the only lake that allows a gas motor there's a 30ft spillway and a fairly strong current leading to it. In the back creeks the water moves fast, and the 3hp wouldn't move the boat at all with the slightest headwind against the running current. It wouldn't move at all with the weedless prop. My first time in the lake with that boat and motor I took my trolling motor as well, if I didn't I'm not sure I'd have gotten back to the dock up stream. When I swapped out the lower unit it was pretty decent even with the plastic prop it came with. It was very capable then of fighting the current and I was able to not worry about being drawn into the spill way current that runs through the middle of the lake.</blockquote>