I'm working on a new design for a 12 ft motorsailor- it's got a really pinched-in stern and I'm going to use one of them little aircraft engines they use on ultralight airplanes and not only will it plane the boat, with or without sails, but you can throttle up the engine and it'll help going down the highway, especially going up hills! Roger McGregor stand back! I may be stupid, but not REAL stupid. jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Dorf" <ndorf@surfbest.net> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 6:20 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Talk about tiny outboards....
Connie, don't give Jerry any ideas, or we might some day see a VolksWrinkle design forthcoming! Cram a Yannie into a Sage... nah!
hehehe
:-)
On 09/27/2012 05:58 PM, Joe Murphy wrote:
Go Connie!! Booyah Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: Conbert Benneck To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:25 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Talk about tiny outboards....
On 27-Sep-12 5:48 PM, jerry montgomery wrote:
Hi Jerry,
That is why I have switched to driving a diesel powered car.
Smart lawyer/politicians figured out that they can get far more votes by mixing 10% ethanol in good gasoline (15% tomorrow).
Ethanol is great for drinking as booze, but is a lousy fuel - it has far fewer Btu's than does the same amount of gasoline.
However, from the politician's viewpoint it is ideal. You, the public, have to burn much more fuel to go the same number of miles as you did with straight gasoline. You have to refuel more often; that means that they get more gasoline taxes (10% more). For politicians it's a win-win situation: they get more votes and more taxes.
When I recognized that, I said enough of that Washington horse-shit. I bought a diesel powered car.
Now I get about 300 miles on half a tank of fuel ( compared to 135 miles with 10% ethanol). Diesel fuel costs me about $0.20 more per gallon, but since I am going twice as far on a gallon, I'm way ahead of the game.
.... and the clever lawyer/politicians can't dilute my diesel fuel because the whole USA transportation system would come to a screeching stop.
The name of the game, as always, still is defeat the conniving bastards.
Connie
3,000 yrs ago Solon the Greek said "laws are for the obedience of the masses and for the guidence of the wise".
Use it but don't tell Chicken Little!
jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Poulakis" <picfo@comcast.net> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:32 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Talk about tiny outboards....
I still have my old 1968 black tank Seagull (10:1 oil) sitting in my boat shed. It runs, but it's mostly around for ambiance since simply starting it breaks a handful of federal environmental laws.
Jim M17 "Spirit"
On Sep 27, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Joe Murphy wrote:
Those are pretty cool looking. And only 20#!! If it could push a Monty you could tow a dinghy and use it for that as well. I had a British SeaGull 40plus. It was rated at, I think, 2 hp. I used it for my dinghy and it was bullet proof. I also put it on a 12' aluminum jon boat and got about 3kts. I also used it on a friends 10' dinghy to bridle up to his 39' wooden Danish ketch to move it to the haul out. It actually pushed that 7 ton beast with ease. It was all torque. I would have used it on my M17 but it got stolen out of my daughter's driveway. She said it was so ugly ....who'd steal it. I told her anyone that knows what they are. Like someone said here, it looked like a weedeater with a prop. I loved it. It reminded me so much of my VW bug. Engineering simplicity. Sure, it was noisy, smelly, and with a ratio of 25:1 (or maybe 40:1) it made it easy to follow with the slick. But other than that..... Joe SeaFrog M17
----- Original Message ----- From: Neil Dorf To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:57 PM Subject: M_Boats: Talk about tiny outboards....
http://www.smalloutboardengines.com
anyone ever heard of these before?
Air cooled, but they as small as the Seagulls.
-Neil
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