[Rhodes22-list] HELP! How about a debate on.. WAS: A GREAT Email List

[Brad Haslett]

Elle,

Most bigger boats with outboards have remote controls.  There isn't any
reason it can't be applied to a smaller engine.  Here is one link to
Tohatsu.  This should be pretty easy engineering for a guy like Stan.

Brad


http://www.tohatsu.co.jp/en/boat/products/ac02.html

On 11/5/06, L. Sailor <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hank,
> I don't know. But knowing Stan, he'll be able to invent something. (The
> boat is not curently at GBI). I just became aware of the problem this week &
> Stan is at ST. Pete at the boat show. I will contact him as soon as he has a
> chance to breathe.
>
> My friend the dealer has been westling with this & hasn't wanted to worry
> me. Neither of us realized it would be such a problem.
>
> How about the shifter linkage? How does one shift w/o reaching to the
> engine? Are there remotes for this?
>
> elle
>
> Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Elle,
>
> Can't Stan build some sort of spacer that would give room for the cables
> to
> turn out of the way?Something that would allow the engine to be mounted x
> number of inches further back?
>
> Hank
>
> On 11/5/06, L. Sailor wrote:
> >
> > Gang at the bar:
> >
> > How about a debate on which engine exists for elle's boat? We cannot
> > find one that has 1) cables coming out the side,) and 2) shifter remote
> so I
> > can work the controls.
> >
> > The way it is now, I would have to lean over the transom, practically
> > hang by my heels to reach the shifter, and steer with my feet while
> looking
> > aft & down.
> >
> > I don't think this is a trend I want to be responsible for starting.
> >
> > Seriously, tho', this is a major problem. It has nothing to do with it
> > being a wheel boat...just all the engines I 've found have the cables
> coming
> > out the front which will hit the motor lift. (And, of course, the
> shifter
> > problem.) I would like to stay with a Japanese made engine.
> >
> > Anyone, ANYONE out there have a suggestion? If I can't get this solved I
> > will have to get rid of the boat.
> >
> > I'll be in touch with GBI when they get back from ST. Pete.
> >
> > elle
> >
> >
> > Rick Lange wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Joe,
> > You must be media deprived. I am bored and irritated to
> > find on a sailors' forum the same discussion of politics that's on every
> > radio and TV talk show as well as so many other blogs and lists.
> > A
> > debate on bottom paint would be refreshing.
> > Rick
> > > howdy
> > all
> > >
> > > I must state that this email list must be run by
> > real
> > > sailors! The topics take on the same range sailors talk
> >
> > > about when at the bar, or at a raft-up! Other lists, are
> > > just so &#$%^ bla, and only talk about the 1,000,000
> > >
> > versions of bottom paint or other such thing.
> > >
> > > As
> > I've heard my buddy tell me countless times "a bitchin
> > >
> > sailor is a happy sailor."!
> > >
> > > I'm very happy I
> > found this group!
> > >
> > > take care and fair winds!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > HADZ (a.k.a. joe)
> > >
> > > "That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and
> > hull and a deck
> > > and sails. That's what a ship needs. But what a
> > ship is... is freedom."
> > > -- Captain Jack Sparrow
> > >
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