Image Of The Week: When Duct Tape Goes Structural

At a quick glance, a passerby a Skater 32B catamaran in its slip at State Dock on Lake Cumberland this morning might have mistook the cat’s port -side outboard engine as something experimental from Mercury Racing. How else to explain duct tape-wrapped outboard? Far weaker disguises for new products have been used in the past.

When the going gets rough, the tough reach for duct tape.

Fort Myers Offshore head Tim Hill, the owner of the boat, should only have been so lucky. In town for the Lake Cumberland Thursday with his wife, Cyndee, Hill was running cat the yesterday when a piece of debris in the water popped up and struck the lower-unit cowling of the boat’s port six-cylinder 400R outboard. He recovered the cowling, but the damage was such that it could no longer snap in place.

So Hill pulled out his trusty, jumbo roll of duct-tape and started wrapping.

The result is can be seen in the photo above. And so far during today’s action, the repair has held up.

If necessity is truly the mother of invention, duct tape is the family patriarch.

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