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Single 250 or Twin 150s?
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message ... On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:46:38 -0400, Rick Kulesh penned the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: The single offers less hydrodynamic drag than the 2 do, and the 250 is probably about equal to the 2x150s. If you want twins purely for the "reliability" argumant, just get the big single and get a contract with BoatUS/SeaTow/(insert water-assistance company of choice in your area). You'll save a buncha dough and not really sacrifice anything. I don't include BoatUS/SeaTow as part of my planned safety equipment. They are a fall back position for things I can't plan for or take steps to avoid. Redundancies a 2 bilge pumps, 2 VHF radios, 2 engines.... that is planning for the eventual inevitability... You and I are on the same page on that one. 2 engines, 2 batteries, jumper cables, battery booster, 2 keys, 2 radios. 2 GPS's...on and on... My question to the fellow I had to tow home a few weeks ago... Do you have a spare batt? "NO" Do you have a battery booster? "NO" Do you have a paddle? "NO" "Im thinking of getting out of the boating business..." He said, with a grin, throwing me his tow line. db |
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Single 250 or Twin 150s?
D-unit wrote:
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message ... On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:46:38 -0400, Rick Kulesh penned the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: The single offers less hydrodynamic drag than the 2 do, and the 250 is probably about equal to the 2x150s. If you want twins purely for the "reliability" argumant, just get the big single and get a contract with BoatUS/SeaTow/(insert water-assistance company of choice in your area). You'll save a buncha dough and not really sacrifice anything. I don't include BoatUS/SeaTow as part of my planned safety equipment. They are a fall back position for things I can't plan for or take steps to avoid. Redundancies a 2 bilge pumps, 2 VHF radios, 2 engines.... that is planning for the eventual inevitability... You and I are on the same page on that one. 2 engines, 2 batteries, jumper cables, battery booster, 2 keys, 2 radios. 2 GPS's...on and on... My question to the fellow I had to tow home a few weeks ago... Do you have a spare batt? "NO" Do you have a battery booster? "NO" Do you have a paddle? "NO" "Im thinking of getting out of the boating business..." He said, with a grin, throwing me his tow line. db I'm not sure what the hell you are going to do with a paddle on the typical deep vee or semi-deep-vee runabout... |
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Single 250 or Twin 150s?
"HK" wrote in message . .. I'm not sure what the hell you are going to do with a paddle on the typical deep vee or semi-deep-vee runabout... When you start to swamp over the LT, you tie this to the flat end of the paddle, raise it high in the air and wave it around like a mad man .... http://tinyurl.com/3ar7zw Eisboch |
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Single 250 or Twin 150s?
"Eisboch" wrote in message ... "HK" wrote in message . .. I'm not sure what the hell you are going to do with a paddle on the typical deep vee or semi-deep-vee runabout... When you start to swamp over the LT, you tie this to the flat end of the paddle, raise it high in the air and wave it around like a mad man .... http://tinyurl.com/3ar7zw Eisboch *And* .... if you're really lucky ... some guy in a floating RV barge will come by and pick you up. Eisboch |
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Single 250 or Twin 150s?
Eisboch wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message ... "HK" wrote in message . .. I'm not sure what the hell you are going to do with a paddle on the typical deep vee or semi-deep-vee runabout... When you start to swamp over the LT, you tie this to the flat end of the paddle, raise it high in the air and wave it around like a mad man .... http://tinyurl.com/3ar7zw Eisboch *And* .... if you're really lucky ... some guy in a floating RV barge will come by and pick you up. Eisboch There certainly were plenty of them out on the bay this weekend, heading south, and some of them were tossing up humongous wakes. These must have been the descendants of the a**holes who come barreling down the ICW in St. Augustine, with their wakes eroding the shorelines. |
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Single 250 or Twin 150s?
"HK" wrote in message . .. Eisboch wrote: "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "HK" wrote in message . .. I'm not sure what the hell you are going to do with a paddle on the typical deep vee or semi-deep-vee runabout... When you start to swamp over the LT, you tie this to the flat end of the paddle, raise it high in the air and wave it around like a mad man .... http://tinyurl.com/3ar7zw Eisboch *And* .... if you're really lucky ... some guy in a floating RV barge will come by and pick you up. Eisboch There certainly were plenty of them out on the bay this weekend, heading south, and some of them were tossing up humongous wakes. These must have been the descendants of the a**holes who come barreling down the ICW in St. Augustine, with their wakes eroding the shorelines. You saw me, huh? At 10 kts. the Navigator throws one heck of a wake. At 20 kts. the wake is almost flat. The GB doesn't make a wake .... hardly. Eisboch |
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Single 250 or Twin 150s?
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:27:42 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote: *And* .... if you're really lucky ... some guy in a floating RV barge will come by and pick you up. Unless it's a LT Parker. In that case, first we present the salvage contract. :-) |
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Single 250 or Twin 150s?
"HK" wrote in message . .. D-unit wrote: "Gene Kearns" wrote in message ... On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:46:38 -0400, Rick Kulesh penned the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: The single offers less hydrodynamic drag than the 2 do, and the 250 is probably about equal to the 2x150s. If you want twins purely for the "reliability" argumant, just get the big single and get a contract with BoatUS/SeaTow/(insert water-assistance company of choice in your area). You'll save a buncha dough and not really sacrifice anything. I don't include BoatUS/SeaTow as part of my planned safety equipment. They are a fall back position for things I can't plan for or take steps to avoid. Redundancies a 2 bilge pumps, 2 VHF radios, 2 engines.... that is planning for the eventual inevitability... You and I are on the same page on that one. 2 engines, 2 batteries, jumper cables, battery booster, 2 keys, 2 radios. 2 GPS's...on and on... My question to the fellow I had to tow home a few weeks ago... Do you have a spare batt? "NO" Do you have a battery booster? "NO" Do you have a paddle? "NO" "Im thinking of getting out of the boating business..." He said, with a grin, throwing me his tow line. db I'm not sure what the hell you are going to do with a paddle on the typical deep vee or semi-deep-vee runabout... I find them to be handy sometimes. He was washed up on some oyster beds. I wanted him to push himself off of them so *I* didn't have to drag his boat off. db |
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