Boat rope caught in impeller seadoo speedster

[donalison]

I have a 2008 seadoo speedster and my rear boat line attached to my mooring cleat got caught in the impeller and immediately snapped the rope.
I took the boat out of the water and removed the rope( not a ski rope)
from the impeller- This was fairly easy.
Can anybody tell me if they have had this happen. If so, were there any
consequences?

 

[rxtxfreak88]

There is really nothing to worry about if you were able to turn the motor off pretty quick. This is a common find that we see.

 

[Rampage]

Well funny you mention this. The last few times I took my ski out it felt very under powered and sluggish, and would cavitate on occasion. I checked several times for grass or debris under there just by feeling...and found nothing. Was not till I got it home and on the stand that my friend crawled under it and looked inside the grate. He found a ton of that yellow nylon rope wrapped around my drive shaft. We took the grate off and got a knife and cut it all off...took the ski back out it it was much better. No damage that I could see ( I could see where my prop chewed the ends of the rope off that made it through). Still baffled on where I picked that up at. I dont even own any rope like that)

 

[donalison]

Thank You, actually I drove the boat in slowly to the dock then loaded on trailer and removed the mooring rope. Do you think damage is likely or not?

Thanks again

 

[Weaverama]

I've done (actually my boys did) the same thing twice. Cut the rope out with a knife and you will be OK. Shine a light up in there to make sure you see and get to everything.