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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Request for a recommendation. Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:53:48 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 109 Message-ID: <vejlra$19ui4$1@dont-email.me> References: <vdjlk6$393hv$1@dont-email.me> <vdk2tj$t76$1@panix2.panix.com> <lm5indFadgdU1@mid.individual.net> <vdq78n$jnci$1@dont-email.me> <vdrv8f$rjv5$1@dont-email.me> <veddgc$2puo$2@dont-email.me> <veecqm$8pcc$1@dont-email.me> <vegn3f$nc2k$1@dont-email.me> <veimu3$14bsc$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="85c8c52f6d41e884fd5f913b1c190cd6"; logging-data="1374788"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ErzjfABlxCdoswQRR0GeC" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:VkJlcl8EXfLQ5vs7xLQUJtUSOLw= In-Reply-To: <veimu3$14bsc$1@dont-email.me> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 241014-4, 10/14/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 5593 Kevrob wrote: > On 10/13/2024 10:56 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote: >> On 12/10/2024 12.48, William Hyde wrote: >>> Kevrob wrote: >>>> On 10/5/2024 2:07 PM, William Hyde wrote: >>>>> Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>>>> On 10/2/2024 1:46 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: >>>>>>> In article <vdk2tj$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. In my childish way I thought that bigger was better. I longed for a ten, or even a five. But I grew out of that. 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? I was eight last time I saw it, so I can't be too accurate. He was very into skiing and ski jumping. In summer he lived on a large house on Lake Muskoka, with a boathouse and at least two large craft, winter in Florida where he had another establishment. He may have had a boat like ours, but I never saw him in it. Fishing was not on the agenda except in the ocean. If he were twenty years younger, he could have been in a 60s beach movie as the cool or alternately creepy older guy. Twenty years older and he'd have been a natural extra for "Weekend at Bernie's". He did love the water. William Hyde