On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:43:43 -0400, RMR
wrote:

I suggest a tiny engine. Preferably gas powered, internal tank.
The problem with electric, is the battery...

There is an electric four HP outboard. Four horse is 250 amps.
We have these one and one half horse Evinrudes that we got during the
fifties. The half might be an Elto, I am not sure. The half is started
with a rope. The one has a modern steel cable recoil starter.

Casady