Parallax wrote:


Can you release the compression of the engine with the decompression
levers, get going good under sail with engine in gear an use the
spinning prop to sorta "push-start" the engine with you suddenly

The large diesels used to power freighters can be restarted this way
quite easily, no compression release required.

This cannot be original cuz I know I saw it somewhere but cannot
imagine where.

Many of these same ships use a "shaft generator" driven off the
propeller shaft.

Rick