Surface drives.

Duck hunters and others down here in Alabama use them. A popular brand name
is Mud Bug. Shallow draft is the objective and they work well. Kinda noisy
but you'd expect that from an air cooled motor.

Butch
"Larry" wrote in message
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"Shaun Van Poecke" wrote in news:v4Tlh.16219
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It might not be a bad concept, but im sure there'll be
lots of issues with life, spare parts, non stainless fasteners and
protection from weather.



I remember a Chinese outboard a couple years back that was diesel, too.
It had a horizontal shaft engine with a belt drive to a pulley on the
pedestal it sat on and there must have been right angle drive gears top
and bottom of the vertical shaft. Very queer looking cheap outboard.
Probably they run 20 years in the Chinese swamplands powering sampans
full of stuff...(c;

I remember the "outboards" in Asia. Horizontal shaft engine hanging
inside the boat with a long drive shaft with a prop on the end of it.
The engines were air cooled...no cooling problems. To steer it, they
tillered the whole thing to change the center of thrust on the
stern....and they would FLY down the river.

The rich call them "surface drives"....(c;



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