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From: Kevrob <kjrobinson@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Request for a recommendation.
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:06:10 -0400
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On 10/13/2024 10:56 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

A frequent comment from older salts down where folks put their craft
in the water:  "You've got too much motor on that boat."

I thought our 3.5hp engine was just right. I thought anything more than 
a 5hp gas engine might be too heavy for the stern. Since the last time I 
piloted any kind of boat, electric engines have come in, so I don't know
what tiny craft get rated for, these days. I imagine the shape of the
hull still matters. BITD you'd not want much power on a dinghy that you 
could also sail, as it would draw differently than our almost flat-
bottomed one.

Twin 80s would be nice on the back of a cabin cruiser, or a mid-sized
skiff.  How big was your uncle's boat?

-- 
Kevin R


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