thunder wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:59:02 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:

When I was a kid, hardly anyone we knew had a fishing/recreational boat
much larger than 20 or 21 feet. Most boats of that sort were 14' to 18',
with, by today's standards, modest horsepower outboards. The guy who took
me fishing several times a week when I was between 7 and 12 years old ran
a 14' dory with a 3 hp Evinrude and he later upgraded to a 5-1/2 hp
Johnson. I daresay he could outfish any non-pro fisherman who posts here.


LOL, you know, Harry, we are dating ourselves. When I was a kid, they
didn't have big rigs, because there weren't any big rigs. Hell, a 33 1/3
Scott A****er was a *big* motor. However, I will agree, unless you are
going offshore, a small boat will get you more fish.


The largest "modern" outboard Evinrude made for some years during the
1950s was the 25-hp BigTwin. My dad, an Evinrude dealer, had a couple of
50 hp monsters left over from the late 1940s, or maybe very early 1950s.

I remember when Evinrude jumped from 25 hp to I think 30 hp and then 33
hp and 40 hp.

Our neighbor at the beach had a beautiful 16' Lyman with a 25 hp
Evinrude. It was some boat.

Gasoline was about 19 cents a gallon in Connecticut, and you could get a
rebate on state taxes for boat use.