[Rhodes22-list] new engine, power tiller?

[Mary Lou Troy]

I've written about our engine issues and set-up a number of different 
times. If you search the archives, you might find it. If not and for 
the benefit of anyone new, here's a brief summary. Everybody else 
including Joe, can skip ahead, you've heard it all before.

Rather than put our engine controls on the tiller, we mounted remote 
controls under the tiller on a table leg. It's removable and you can 
stow the assembly under the seat. Pictures are here (you may have to 
cut and past if they go over more than one line):
http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20071003/d98ce8ea/attachment.jpg
http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20071003/d98ce8ea/attachment-0001.jpg

These are Honda controls that we had for our old Honda 8. We had that 
motor for 9 years of faithful service before it abruptly gave up the 
ghost due to saltwater corrosion and salt clogging of all the cooling 
passageways. If you are going to be operating the boat in salt water 
make sure you have an easy way to flush the engine with fresh water. 
Because we leave the boat in a slip there was no easy way to flush 
the old engine - you had to attach a hose to an earmuff type 
connection freshwater intake or run it in a barrel. When we went 
looking for a replacement we ended up with a Yamaha because of the 
ease of freshwater flushing. The Yamaha techs were able to reuse the 
Honda controls on the Yamaha. So far, we've been happy with the motor 
and the installation.

There is lots more discussion of this in the archives in October and 
November 2007 under the subjects of "Repowering Fretless" and 
"Question for Mary Lou"

Mary Lou
1991 R22  Fretless
Rock Hall, MD




At 01:34 PM 5/6/2009, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>We are going to buy a new outboard for our Rhodes.  Anybody have any
>powerful complaints about any particular brands?
>The basics of what I want is four stroke, electric start.  Mercury has a
>9.9 hp bigfoot with a 4 bladed prop similar to our old Yamaha 9.9.  I
>think Honda has something similar.  Don't necessarily need 9.9hp.
>Sometimes the Yamaha has seemed too powerful when I want to come into a
>dock real slow.  Probably 8hp is more like it.
>I am considering getting a power tiller.  I think Ron Singerman had one
>installed, maybe I've confused him with someone else.
>Anybody had any positive/negative experiences with power tiller?
>Thanks,
>Joe
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