Back when I was a dumb kid, you know way before I was a dumb adult, I borrowed a camouflaged 6'8 dingy from a gullible boat builder in Costa Mesa . It was built really light but I needed it for a trip to Catalina to get to shore where the girls were.   We pushed the old half sinking Kettenburg PC with a ten HP Merc. outboard that ran like a banshie. One morning the bay was absolutely mirror glassy and we really wished we had a motor for the dink as we were about a mile from where the pancakes and eggs lived . Tom the owner of the PC was down below, looked like a pile of dirty, wet clothes with a set of Ray Bans leaning against  them said"take the Merc. Until then we wondered if he was dead. We thought that motor would tear the transom right out of the boat, or the dink would flip and the prop would eat us up alive. we soon found that we could crank the motor full blast, clime forward to flatten the boat and steer buy leaning the direction you want to go, it all worked great and it planned like it was made to do so.     We got a ticket for going 35 mph in the anchorage but the harbor master was full of it, we only went 27mph.  The boat builder never really hassled me about the bazillion spider web cracks in the gel coat, go figure. Stan ________________________________ From: "bownez@juno.com" <bownez@juno.com> To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:48 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Dinghy-ology Correction Hi Connie, Great to hear from you, as always!I just acquired a 1972 Evinrude "Mate" 2hp outboard from a fishing buddy. I got her running and am going to try it on my M6.8. I also like the idea of swimming noodles to protect the pram and sailboat from bumping. List has been a bit quiet, I hope everyone is out sailing and enjoying themselves. Bones ____________________________________________________________ 5 Best Diet Pills of 2012 Find out which diet pills tested highest for weight loss. Free report. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4fe1487ebc79d7c9be6st05vuc

On 19-Jun-12 11:48 PM, bownez@juno.com wrote: Hi Bones, I presume that your 1972 Evinrude 2 HP outboard is similar to mine, and it has the spark plug and high tension wire to the spark plug out in the open. If it quits while you are tooling about, the first thing to suspect is moisture on the high tension wire which very effectively grounds out the spark (after checking that you still have fuel in the tank). In the "You get too soon old and too late smart" department, I'd suggest encasing the cylinder with a plastic bag to keep the spray off the ignition wire and spark plug. Plastic bags are cheap and plentiful: if it melts or tears it can easily be replaced. At least it would be an attempt to keep the ignition dry. I love the swim noodles solution as a dinghy edging. The Dwyer, canvas covered rubber, while elegant, is very expensive if you have to replace it. My solution on the rebuilt Dwyer dink was to use clear plastic tubing and tie it to the gunwale, with the cordage I had available, using the existing holes in the gunwales. By tightening gthe cordage, the line was below the surface of the tubing, so it didn't get frayed during use. That worked very well, and I was happy with that solution; but modern pool noodles are a definite improvement to my plastic tubing idea - and they are available in various colors too! Connie

Hi Connie, Great to hear from you, as always!I just acquired a 1972 Evinrude "Mate" 2hp outboard from a fishing buddy. I got her running and am going to try it on my M6.8. I also like the idea of swimming noodles to protect the pram and sailboat from bumping. List has been a bit quiet, I hope everyone is out sailing and enjoying themselves. Bones ____________________________________________________________ 5 Best Diet Pills of 2012 Find out which diet pills tested highest for weight loss. Free report. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4fe1487ebc79d7c9be6st05vuc