Gee, I never heard that a modern sailboat engine had a life limited to just 467
hours.

In fact, I keep hearing *most* boat owners (at least those with diesel engines
of any kind) claim anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 hours between major overhauls
(bull****, of course).

But let's see now. 467 hours at about 40 hours per year (just how many hours
per year does one really, really expect to push a 10 hp in a boat so heavy it
is unlikely to make 5 knots except in a dead flat calm?) makes for almost 12
years of usage before the engine needs a major.

Do you plan on driving you car until it is 13 years old, and then bitching you
had to fix something on it?

However, let's say you get upwards of a 1,000 hours on the engine before you
gotta spend some time fixing it. That makes for a quarter century of use.

Still not enough time?

Well, let's say you take extra good care of that engine and you get a massive
number of hours out of it, like maybe 2,000 hours.

That's 50 years of use.

How old are you going to be 50 years from now?

Give it a break, dude. You like a 440# (without starter motor) engine that
puts out about the same horsepower riding lawn mover because "it has character"
go ahead and install one. Is it practical? Surely not, but it shore do has
"character".

Yeah, yeah

Get yourself the most horsepower for the lightest weight possible & then
fill your keel up with lead!! lol.
Then watch that lightweight, high revving, Japanese baby fly to pieces after
467 hours?


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
Neil baby, my mother used to say "There is NO one so stupid as he who
won't
learn".

You gotta remember that back in those days "he" meant anyone (man or
woman).

Go ahead and build that grossly obese boat with the grossly obese -- and
punny
power -- engine, all the while telling anyone who will listen -- all two
of 'em
-- what a genius you are for installing an engine that puts out an
incredible 1
hp for every 45 pounds of engine weight (something not done on aircraft
engines
in 85 years, or car engines in 80 years or farm tractor engines in 65
years, or
industrial gasoline engines in 60 years, or industrial diesel engines in
50
years).

That's sorta like bragging about having a 48 inch ass.

Be proud, dude.

say, neil, didn't you a long time ago - about 6 years -- claim on the
boatbuilding.com site to be a naval architect by training and profession?
How
come then you didn't know all this stuff?

Maybe 'cuz you didn't know it 6 years ago either?


Well Jax Ashby, given the calibre of your postings, I wonder if you've
actually reached the 8th grade yet.

To everyone else, many thanks for your comments.

N.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
scooty, I built my first boat (a Professional Class A/B Racing
Runabout)
between the fall and spring of year I was in 8th grade.

What did you do in 8th grade?

btw scooty, I started repairing engines professionally for adult men
who
couldn't the summer before I started Junion HS.

How about you? When did you start?

OK, folks. This is Jax Ashby. Famous or infamous on rec.boats (just do
a google search) for just plain being a trouble maker. This guy is
worse than a spammer and should probably be best ignored in most
cases.

We are a group of builders and folks who build and or want to build
boats, and "rec.boats.highschool" is mostly a hands on group talking
from experience or asking serious questions. Why Jax has brought his
brand of spam/ego/flame to this group is beyond me, but remember, he
can only do as much damage as we let him. I could be wrong but I doubt
he gives two ****s about building boats, just likes to hear himself
talk. Take it for what it's worth, I am sure he will have something
nasty to say in return but I will let my posts on boatbuilding address
my answers to anything this guy has to say.

Scott Ingersoll
SmallBoats.com