I have an 11' tender which is currently supplied with rowlocks. It is
fiberglass and quite heavy.

What size Outboard should I buy?

"Molesworth" wrote in message
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I have an 11' tender which is currently supplied with rowlocks. It is
fiberglass and quite heavy.

What size Outboard should I buy?

If you are using it as a tender, I'd stay with a 3 to 4 hp outboard. You'd
want something reasonably light to lug around.

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

I have an 11' tender which is currently supplied with rowlocks. It is
fiberglass and quite heavy.

What size Outboard should I buy?


I vote for the Seagull. Simple, easy-to-repair-yourself even in some
remote port. Of course, they're very hard to find in good condition, so
my second choice would be a 3hp TWO STROKE outboard you can lay down and
carry in ANY position, with the gas tank on top of the motor, not a
separate tank to have to carry and store. Mine is a 3hp Yamaha a
greatful captain gave me out of his garage. You can carry it easily in
one hand. It has no troublesome "shift" transmission. You simply spin
around to point in the direction you want to go, forwards, backwards,
sideways, and it tows the boat as well as pushes it. When you store it,
you simply turn it upside down and pour the premix gas back into the 1
gallon gas can. I let it run with the fuel shutoff turned off until it
stalls on full choke to empty the little carb while it's still on the
9.4' Watertender another greatful boater gave me when he got his
Foldabote 12'.

Oh, how awful....a two stroke!.....yecch!
* It never needs an oil change
* It never needs "regular service" unless the impeller tears up.
* It never needs its valves adjusted, it has none.
* It never needs its fuel pump repaired, it's gravity fed.
* Oil cannot back up into its cylinder because it has no oil so you
can just lay it down anywhere.
* Noone can step on its fuel hose laying on the deck.

Larry
--
Now we'll all go out to Waste Marine and spend $3000 on a Nissan 9.9, 4-
stroke.....yecch.

Molesworth wrote:

I have an 11' tender which is currently supplied with rowlocks. It is
fiberglass and quite heavy.

What size Outboard should I buy?

Anything less than 9,9HP and you are kidding yourself, and it WILL be
4 cyl, if you're smart.

Lew

On Jun 8, 10:22 am, Lew Hodgett wrote:
Molesworth wrote:

I have an 11' tender which is currently supplied with rowlocks. It is
fiberglass and quite heavy.

What size Outboard should I buy?

Anything less than 9,9HP and you are kidding yourself, and it WILL be
4 cyl, if you're smart.

Lew

Maybe... If the dink is a round bottomed pulling boat then 2 or 3 hp
is all it will be able to use anyway. More power would just make it
dangerous. If it has a planning hull then it could use more power but
we need to know something about the service the tender will be in
before we know if he will want it. I use our dink as our car and
often travel a mile or two from the boat to a village. For that a big
motor would be a nice thing, but we put up with a 5hp 2 stroke Yamaha
because it is light. When we're at an anchorage where we are close
the the dock then two or three would be better... Four strokes are
heavy and still don't have the reliably and service network that two
strokes have. So, if you are headed to the wilderness a 2 stroke is a
better bet but if you're puttering about at idle in a pond then a
clean quiet four stroke is the way to go...

-- Tom.

Lew Hodgett brought forth on stone tablets:
Molesworth wrote:

I have an 11' tender which is currently supplied with rowlocks. It is
fiberglass and quite heavy.

What size Outboard should I buy?

Anything less than 9,9HP and you are kidding yourself, and it WILL be 4
cyl, if you're smart.

Lew

A 4 cyl 9.9 HP outboard would be a marvel of miniturization. Perhaps
you meant a 4 cycle engine - you know - the heavy ones you have to set
down just so, or they'll dump heavy crankcase oil on the dock and then
into the water...

bob
s/v Eolian
Seattle

RW Salnick wrote in news:f4mi8u$34i$1
@gnus01.u.washington.edu:

A 4 cyl 9.9 HP outboard would be a marvel of miniturization. Perhaps
you meant a 4 cycle engine - you know - the heavy ones you have to set
down just so, or they'll dump heavy crankcase oil on the dock and then
into the water...



You haven't seen some of the multicylinder model airplane engines, have
you....(c;

http://www.osengines.com/engines/osmg1320.html
4 cylinder, 4.1hp @ 8000 RPM, 4 stroke diesel, 13.3ccX4
What a great inboard dingy it would make...(c;
.....hooked to a surface drive...

Use two of them....twin engine airboat dingy!

Larry
--
http://www.spp.gov/
The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP

Larry wrote:

RW Salnick wrote in news:f4mi8u$34i$1
@gnus01.u.washington.edu:


A 4 cyl 9.9 HP outboard would be a marvel of miniturization. Perhaps
you meant a 4 cycle engine - you know - the heavy ones you have to set
down just so, or they'll dump heavy crankcase oil on the dock and then
into the water...




You haven't seen some of the multicylinder model airplane engines, have
you....(c;

http://www.osengines.com/engines/osmg1320.html
4 cylinder, 4.1hp @ 8000 RPM, 4 stroke diesel, 13.3ccX4
What a great inboard dingy it would make...(c;
....hooked to a surface drive...

Use two of them....twin engine airboat dingy!

Larry

4HP and it weighs less than five pounds? Why AREN'T we using them for
outboards???
DT

In article ,
Larry wrote:

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

I have an 11' tender which is currently supplied with rowlocks. It is
fiberglass and quite heavy.

What size Outboard should I buy?


I vote for the Seagull. Simple, easy-to-repair-yourself even in some
remote port. Of course, they're very hard to find in good condition, so
my second choice would be a 3hp TWO STROKE outboard you can lay down and
carry in ANY position, with the gas tank on top of the motor, not a
separate tank to have to carry and store. Mine is a 3hp Yamaha a
greatful captain gave me out of his garage. You can carry it easily in
one hand. It has no troublesome "shift" transmission. You simply spin
around to point in the direction you want to go, forwards, backwards,
sideways, and it tows the boat as well as pushes it. When you store it,
you simply turn it upside down and pour the premix gas back into the 1
gallon gas can. I let it run with the fuel shutoff turned off until it
stalls on full choke to empty the little carb while it's still on the
9.4' Watertender another greatful boater gave me when he got his
Foldabote 12'.

Oh, how awful....a two stroke!.....yecch!
* It never needs an oil change
* It never needs "regular service" unless the impeller tears up.
* It never needs its valves adjusted, it has none.
* It never needs its fuel pump repaired, it's gravity fed.
* Oil cannot back up into its cylinder because it has no oil so you
can just lay it down anywhere.
* Noone can step on its fuel hose laying on the deck.

Larry,

You're preaching to the choir in regards to 2-strokes! I've got a '69
Vespa!

Molesworth

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

You're preaching to the choir in regards to 2-strokes! I've got a '69
Vespa!

Molesworth


I just bought a 2004 Honda Reflex that belonged to a 72-year-old man who
decided it was too big for his weak knees. It had 1900 miles on it! I
bought it from the local Vespa-Big Dog motorcycle dealer. All the new
Vespas are all 4-stroke, as is my 250cc Reflex, which is water cooled and
the Reflex owners on the net say is extremely reliable with its V-matic
crazy continuously-variable transmission. My first tank driving it like
I stole it in the city traffic got 72.8 MPG on a 250CC engine!

It's mid 90's in Charleston. The BEST feature of the Reflex is all the
heat comes out the BACK of it....even at a traffic light! There's no
feeling of engine heat wafting around you at all. Too bad that doesn't
include ASPHAULT heat...(c;

I'm afraid the new Vespa is quite an improvement over yours. I rode the
two biggest models before buying this Reflex. Though not as smooth and
quiet as the Reflex's full-enclosed drive train, they are really nice
scooters, too......$US6000 OUCH!

http://www.jkminc.com/ReflexScooter.htm
Mine's red, too... Even the Hooter's girls wanted a ride!

Larry
--
http://www.spp.gov/
The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP