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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:48:04 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:27:46 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:00:03 +0700, wrote:

y out board is almost ten years old and still going strong drinking
its 50::1 mix. Wonder if your 9.9 will last as long?

My outboard is more than eighty years old. Starts with a rope, of
course. One half HP. Powers an aluminum canoe. Grumman if it matters.

I apologise for unclear writing, but the canoe is the Grumman. The
motor is an Evenrude. Parts for the boat are sheet metal and rivets.
Neither has ever needed any parts. The motor doesn't necessarily have
high hours, no way to really tell. Sure as hell couldn't ask previous
owners, when we got it fifty years ago. It wasn't that old then, a
mere thirty years. We have a recoil start one horse that is only
slightly newer. We also had a duckboat. Twelve foot long, it was
shaped almost exactly like a WWII German S-Boat. [also called
E-boats], and was fast for the power, 22 mph with a five, and not bad
with the one. The canoe is scary fast with a three, the narrow beam
and all, but the one is nice. My dad used the half with his sixteen
foot schooner. { a converted cedar,with an oak keel, rowboat. Made
locally, the type hull was the standard local fishboat for decades}
got the hull free from a neighbor. Sat out for years, the keel had
rotted away. Cedar was still good. Replaced the keel with custom made
steel. Got it from the Des Moines firm that made the Gateway Arch, at
about the same time. They had two jobs that year.

Casady

I knew that Grumman built boats but did n not know that they had built
engines also. I just assumed that hey were one of the early outboard
motor makers that disappeared in the early on. In looking things up I
did discover that Ole Evenrude was not the first maker of out boards,
which is sort of a standard belief here. There was actually an earlier
builder who appeared to be fairly successful but still disappeared
fairly early on. Waterman built up top 1,000 engines a year as far
back as 1905.

Aluminum was the first nail in the wooden boat market and when GRP
came along it pretty much killed the wooden boat makers.

Back in the days of wooden working boats all the lobster boats were
cedar on oak frames. From talking to the old folk the wood lasted but
the galvanized boat nails holding it together only lasted 10 years, or
so.

..

Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom)