M_Boats: Re:Yet another method of propulsion, hand powered outboard
I'm pretty sure I've found a picture and description of the hand powered outboard. Go to : http://www.acbm.us/passion-for-outboards.htm and scroll down to about the third picture.....Hmmm.... this one has a crank, it looks like, and not a 'pump handle' tiller: there surely could have been more than one such thing. -Paul Bailey M-15 Sassea On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 08:40 PM, montgomery_boats- request@mailman.xmission.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: IDCLLC@aol.com [mailto:IDCLLC@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:52 AM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Yet another method of propulsion
My dad has a manual outboard engine-essentially a gearbox on a shaft, with a big, slow turning prop. You pump its tiller up and down to make it go. It's over thirty years old, and I've never used it, but it fascinated me as a child. It's very light; even an 8 year old can pick it up. If I get a chance, I'll try it on our P-15, but beware: I'm building Michalak's 14 ft Piragua canoe, which is taking all my boating time. The good news is, I have about two more coats of epoxy and painting to complete it. Wahoo!
Cheers
Steve Tyree, P-15 #2098 "Amy Ann" --
That is fantastic! Thanks for the post, Paul. I am a bike mechanic at REI in Seattle and now I am thinking I need to fabricate something with a bike crank, a chain, a prop... I should probably just overhaul my outboard! Is IS a very intriguing idea though. Hmmmmm... -Rusty --- Paul Bailey <pbailey@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I'm pretty sure I've found a picture and description of the hand powered outboard. Go to : http://www.acbm.us/passion-for-outboards.htm
and scroll down to about the third picture.....Hmmm.... this one has a crank, it looks like, and not a 'pump handle' tiller: there surely could have been more than one such thing.
-Paul Bailey M-15 Sassea
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 08:40 PM, montgomery_boats- request@mailman.xmission.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: IDCLLC@aol.com [mailto:IDCLLC@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:52 AM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Yet another method of
propulsion
My dad has a manual outboard engine-essentially a
gearbox on a shaft,
with a big, slow turning prop. You pump its tiller up and down to make it go. It's over thirty years old, and I've never used it, but it fascinated me as a child. It's very light; even an 8 year old can pick it up. If I get a chance, I'll try it on our P-15, but beware: I'm building Michalak's 14 ft Piragua canoe, which is taking all my boating time. The good news is, I have about two more coats of epoxy and painting to complete it. Wahoo!
Cheers
Steve Tyree, P-15 #2098 "Amy Ann" --
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There used to be a thing called a "Man-U-Troll" back in the 70's: a kind of hand-cranked trolling device with a prop and single crank, if I remember rightly. Saw this thing in a strange performance art production (Ah, the 70's!) at UC Davis of all places where folks were using them to propel canoes and "floats" around on a pond. The product was designed for fishermen and I don't have any idea about its performance characteristics or whether it is still being made. -- George Burmeyer Santa Rosa, CA On 10/30/03 8:52 PM, "Paul Bailey" <pbailey@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I'm pretty sure I've found a picture and description of the hand powered outboard. Go to : http://www.acbm.us/passion-for-outboards.htm
and scroll down to about the third picture.....Hmmm.... this one has a crank, it looks like, and not a 'pump handle' tiller: there surely could have been more than one such thing.
-Paul Bailey M-15 Sassea
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 08:40 PM, montgomery_boats- request@mailman.xmission.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: IDCLLC@aol.com [mailto:IDCLLC@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:52 AM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Yet another method of propulsion
My dad has a manual outboard engine-essentially a gearbox on a shaft, with a big, slow turning prop. You pump its tiller up and down to make it go. It's over thirty years old, and I've never used it, but it fascinated me as a child. It's very light; even an 8 year old can pick it up. If I get a chance, I'll try it on our P-15, but beware: I'm building Michalak's 14 ft Piragua canoe, which is taking all my boating time. The good news is, I have about two more coats of epoxy and painting to complete it. Wahoo!
Cheers
Steve Tyree, P-15 #2098 "Amy Ann" --
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There was a little pedal boat designed by Gary Hoyt called the "Water Bug" I think. Instead of the typical paddle wheel it used a propeller. The whole thing was shaped kind of like a big 3-d teardrop complete with sliding Plexiglas canopy. If I recall correctly from the old national geographic articles about human-powered flight the typical human being can put out only about 1/2 horse at fairly high effort so such propulsion would only be helpful in very mild conditions and for limited times. Tod
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