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

[L. Sailor]

Philip,
  This is what we were originally wanting to do.....but but maybe it's getting the (right) engine with the right controls with the cables where they don't have to bend tightly...
   
  Tomorrow AM I am off to the outboard dealers in the area. Luckily, I have Yamaha, Honda, Mercury, w/in 10 mi  of my house. Tohatsu dealer is only 26 mi away...as the crow flies...(I'd have to swim the Potomac to get there!)
   
  elle

Philip <3drecon at comcast.net> wrote:
  What about setting the controls up like a speed boat with the shift and
throttle on the binnacle post? Even if you could mount the shifter, you
might be able to adapt a motorcycle throttle, since the carburetor operates
on a cable. I thought of doing that myself.

Philip


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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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