"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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Ok, we are all familiar with inboards, I/Os, and outboards. Most of us
have
seen a stern wheeler or a side wheeler or a picture of one, but what else
is
there?

I have run a cross refferences to a steam jet outboard. Haven't seen one
or
even read a review of one yet, but it sure sounds interesting.

There is another I/O drive that looks interesting. Looks like a ball
joing
or soemthing like that where it comes out of the transom and it sticks way
back behind the behing unlike the usual I/O that looks like the lower half
of an outboard. I guess its more of an inboard application that turns
instead of using a rudder.

That would be a surface drive...like the one seen
here...http://home.columbus.rr.com/ckg/

The above one is straight ( or no-drop)...they come in different "drops".

There are also Jet (pump) drives, and v-drives. (The latter technically an
"inboard")

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-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
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