Great story PileDriver! I can't beat that story I did put my new 195CC to the test a few weekends ago. I was drifting for flounder in the Boston Harbor and we got into some skates. My friend hooked a particularly fiesty one and I was helping him get it off the hook. All of sudden we hit something! It was a channel marker bouy. We drifted right into and and bounced off. It hit us on the starboard side and didn't even leave a mark although it seemed like a big impact at the time. Luckily my engine didn't make contact and everything was fine. Obviously I need to pay better attention when I'm drifting