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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Request for a recommendation.
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:56:47 -0500
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On 12/10/2024 12.48, William Hyde wrote:
> Kevrob wrote:
>> On 10/5/2024 2:07 PM, William Hyde wrote:
>>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> On 10/2/2024 1:46 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>>>> In article <vdk2tj$t76$1@panix2.panix.com>,
>>>>> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>>> William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am looking for a book which will interest a 12 year old kid who is
>>>>>>> fascinated by things mechanical.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A fiction book or nonfiction?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I was... younger than 12, might have been about seven... I got my
>>>>>> father to buy me the Chilton's engine rebuilding annual.  I still have
>>>>>> it.  I spent months poring over it.
>>>>>> --scott
>>>>>
>>>>> L. Sprague deCamp actually wrote a non-fiction book about engines.
>>>>>
>>>>> Huh, it's actually called _Engines_:
>>>>>
>>>>>     https://www.amazon.com/Engines-L-Sprague-Camp/dp/B0006BZMX8
>>>>
>>>> That is a wild picture.  I can tell you from experience, working on a outboard engine in the middle of a lake or river is not fun when you drop whatever you were working on in the drink.  In my case, it was the propeller after we ran over a log and broke the prop key.  One should always have a spare prop and several keys on board.
>>>
>>> I had a similar experience but without the log (why it broke I do not know).
>>>
>>> It's amazing how long it takes to  move a 10 foot boat a mile with only one paddle.  If there had been any kind of current the other way I'd still be out there.
>>>
>>> I could have swum back faster.
>>>
>>> I never went out again without checking the spares, even if I absolutely knew they were there.
>>>
>>>
>>> William Hyde
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I used to put my Great-Uncle's 3.5 hp Evinrude (a 1956, IMS) on the
>> back of my family's 10-ft aluminum dinghy,
> 
> 
> We also had a 3.5 Evinrude, and the year is about right.
> 
> Also an aluminum boat.  It usually had oars, but for some reason they were gone that day and only a paddle remained.  I could have rowed it back easily enough, but paddling is for canoes, not boats.
> 
> My uncle was well off, and every year he had new and stronger engines. the last I recall were twin 80 mercs.  

Hopefully, they weren't on the same old aluminum rowboat.


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