At the Bottom of the Deben for 2 years
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Bigplumbs
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Bigplumbs
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Bigplumbs
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And here it is running again.... Brought back to life. Quite a testament to Mariner I recon.
Plum
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Debenair
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If you find the water cooled Honda I dropped from my mooring opposite the Ramsholt Arms in 2011 you are very welcome to try to refettle it!?
Supine Being
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That’s amazing. How did you find it?
Mr Googler
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Is this like triggers broom? Kept the sticker but everything else is new ?
Corribee Boy
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Now see if you can do the same for one of those mythical WW2 plane crashes in the Stour!
jaydee1976
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if u want more then by my boat is a 14/15mm ring spanner I dropped last week.. A few abandonded dinghys sunk by the causeway as well but think they are beyond repair
Bigplumbs
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It actually has very few replacement parts. The petrol in the tank was even still quite good. Not that it was used.
The main new parts were a Chinese copy Carb, a bearing, Spark plug and some other small bits almost all the rest was reused. The cardboard box full of parts in the pics were all the original parts that were cleaned up and reused
Bigplumbs
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It was leaning up against a wall in the boatyard and we think someone hauled it up with an anchor. The boatyard was going to chuck it but it looked like a good challenge.
To be clear it was not me that rebuilt this it was a friend of mine who discussed it with me throughout the process. He does not do forums and social media but I felt it was worth posting as it is a real testiment to Mariner and indeed my friends work. He now says he wants another project as he enjoyed it so much. A lot of the work was done in lockdown. He said it took about 50 plus hours
TRH
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That's what I call dedication to carry that through till the final finish Well done
Oldgeezer
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Well I'll go the foot of my stairs!
I lost my Mariner 2 stroke overboard between Eversons and Loders cut three years ago. No 3 son did not tighten the transom screws and when we turned to starboard it went to port - and to Davy jones locker.
Hope it serves you well - the bearings were a bit knackered making it rattle and you could hear it clattering up the river!
Notice you mention new bearings!
Excellent job - it was very reliable.
Now got a 4 stroke Honda. {not as reliable!!!)
I lost my Mariner 2 stroke overboard between Eversons and Loders cut three years ago. No 3 son did not tighten the transom screws and when we turned to starboard it went to port - and to Davy jones locker.
Hope it serves you well - the bearings were a bit knackered making it rattle and you could hear it clattering up the river!
Notice you mention new bearings!
Excellent job - it was very reliable.
Now got a 4 stroke Honda. {not as reliable!!!)
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Bigplumbs
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Now that is interesting. My friend who was the one who acquired the engine and did the work said he thought the bearings looked poor so obviously replaced them. Apart from those and the carb which he replaced with a chinese copy most everything else if working again. A very interesting story and to have your bit of history associated with it is also interesting.
WoodyP
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Your friend may be interested in the Buffalo tank recovered from Crowland. They lost that in 1947 floods.
DrSpock
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I get that it was a project and maybe for a challenge but 50 hours work + parts makes it a pretty expensive outboard!
Bigplumbs
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He did the work himself and the parts were very cheap...... Also not everything is about money...... It is very easy to know the cost of many things but the value of nothing
DrSpock
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Very philosophical however it's not exactly the Mary Rose is it...
sarabande
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Yes, not a 16th century warship, but very much in the sensible spirit of "can do" and not needlessly throwing boaty things away when they are broken or dunked.
