"HK" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Rom" wrote in message news:OO4Bi.81$ih.1@trnddc01...
For someone not smart enough to reduce tire pressure to prevent an empty
trailer from bouncing *you sure knows alot* about enginimeering.


I hope he knows more than you about the Queen's English.

He also doesn't know that before I left the trailer dealer's, he lowered
the air pressure on all four times from 50 psi to 30 psi. It wasn't the
tire pressure, it was the crappy state of the Interstate highway between
I-64 in Norfolk and where the the long and much newer connected to I-95
began. I-95 is also in terrible condition between Springfield and
Richmond, Virginia, but I wasn't on I-95 for long...just long enough to
pick up the connector to 301, a much older road that is properly
maintained.

But, as ROM has shown here, he's just another rec.boats dickwad.



30psi is not low enough.

"Don White" wrote in message
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"Rom" wrote in message news:OO4Bi.81$ih.1@trnddc01...

For someone not smart enough to reduce tire pressure to prevent an empty
trailer from bouncing *you sure knows alot* about enginimeering.


I hope he knows more than you about the Queen's English.

Woooosh

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Aug 28, 12:01?pm, HK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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You're just sliding down that hill again, Chuck. Your goal, stated or
otherwise, is to promote anything and all things that might sell
boats.
I have no ongoing business interests in the boating world. I think
hanging
large appendages out of the bottom of a plastic pleasure boat is
inherently risky and certainly riskier than the typical inboard prop
shaft
and rudder combo. A steel commercial vessel with watertight
compartments
and bulkheads, well, that's different, eh?

Harry, you seem to be taking the position that the only safe type of
engine
on a small pleasure boat is an outboard (probably run like I used to as
a
kid ... with the latch disengaged so if you hit bottom or something,
the
engine just pivoted up).

Nothing wrong with an outboard, if fact I'd prefer it to an I/O, but
both
are not practical for some boats. I've seen a SeaRay with conventional
twin
screws and rudders have the entire strut on one side ripped out of the
hull
when it's prop picked up and wrapped a submerged 2" hawser. I also
recently saw a mangled mess of props, bent shafts and a hole almost 2
feet
long in a boat that got out of the channel in Wood's Hole and ran up on
the
rocks.

Eisboch

No, that is not my position. Though on a *small* power pleasure boat
like mine, I don't believe inboards make much sense.

On straight inboard boats, I prefer the shafts and drives be at least
partially protected by a significant keel ahead of those appendages.
There are plenty of inboards with such bottom protection. But even bare
struts, shafts and props present less of an inviting target and probably
don't hang down as low as these new variations on I/O drives that come
through the bottom of the hull. Plus they are very complex, just the
sort of thing you need when "cruising" to faraway ports.

You have a point on the complexity issue. Otherwise you are
enunciating through your fedora, especially when it comes to
protection.

The entire keel and the foreward sections of the hull protrude
substantially deeper than the Zeus drives on the 41 GB. Visualize a
semi displacement hull, instead of a planing hull, and you may be able
to appreciate why the Zeus drives are not unduly exposed. The total
surface exposure is much less than with traditional exposed shafts and
struts, and a serious wack may be substantially less likely to sink
the boat.



Only sinking boat I was ever on, was a 43' inboard, wooden boat, and wrapped
a cable in the propeller. Ripped the strut loose, and so we proceded to
have a bucket brigade bailing until the CG got there to tow us in.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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Woods Hole can be one scary place when the current is ripping through
there. I have done a fair amount of boating over the years and still
regard it as one of the most dangerous places on the east coast.

My first time through Woods Hole (on the way to the Vineyard) was a tense
passage, mainly due to all the horror stories I had heard. That was on the
Navigator. I haven't been through on the GB yet and if and when I do, I'll
be very picky about timing the passage with regard to the tide and current.
The Navigator has the power you need. The GB doesn't.

Another dangerous inlet, in my opinion, is Jupiter Inlet in Florida. Fetch
can build some rough water as you approach and the "channel" is constantly
shifting due to storms.

Eisboch