Recent content by ThreeSummers

I did it, and I would again, though my build was much smaller - that build is seriously impressive! My boat in my garden, SW of London (around 2006): and a couple of weeks ago, in SA: Launched July 2008 on the Thames, no maintenance to the boat since (motor's a different story). Boat's...

http://www.bloodonthehulls.com I've just read this, and if true, not impressed!

Okay, lets forget about issues such as legalities, insurance etc. and think about practical design for a while (I'm having this same discussion on two different forums right now)... The concept of only bringing the bottom of the boat up to meet the new transom (original pic posted) in my mind...

It is a local municipal by-law as far as I can tell - a lot of our river regulations are kinda murky, much like the water is right now after heavy flooding... We are in an abalone poaching hotspot here - untended outboards do not stay on boats for very long, no matter how secure. Easy to do...

To reduce drag - the square transom drags a huge amount of water behind it and I want to give it the right shape to have the water flow up the stern smoothly, as well as have a propellor higher than the keel - the water gets quite shallow sometimes. I'm also thinking that an extension of the...

An outboard will get stolen.

That's exactly what I want to do. Though I still prefer glass over ply - that's what I have experience with, and the ply becomes it's own mould if I shape the frames right. Cheaper too than laying up 10mm or more of laminations, which is more or less what the rest of the boat is. There's a...

No, 6 is right. Though speed increases noticeably when my pax move the the front of the boat, lifting the square transom out the water... so I figure building a curve in there can only improve things. 10 knots would be ideal. My understanding of jets is that the nozzle needs to be out the water...

Wow, some quick responses here! Not practical to charge - boat lives on the river and no power available nearby. I've been thinking of having a replacement built for several months now, and it will cost me a lot less to convert - doing the conversion myself. Besides, no one in their right...

So, I hauled my other boat (see pic below) out the water yesterday after four years of cruising, and need to improve things somewhat. It's too noisy (I do birding safari cruises), it's too ineffecient - it runs a 1.9 litre Toyota diesel driving a Hamilton jet, max speed around 6 knots (I have...

This is what I've used with epoxy on two new builds, one total rebuild (boat stripped to bare GRP shell) and several boat repairs and modifications: For joining and structural filleting - microfibres, cotton flocking, wood flour are all fine. Micro-ballons are not. Consistency is the key - if...

Why not sand it down with an RO sander - gets rid of the paint and prepares the surface for primer... Tim.

I've been doing some googling and found a list of serial numbers that shows this little motor to be an '89 model - 1990 is the last year of listing. Propeller shows scuff marks on the outer edges that could have come from 25 years worth of being moved around a garage but having seen the insides...

Well, I guess it could have been any of the above mentioned ideas... Cleaned everything, poked jets, checked tank vent (needed to open 3 full turns for air flow) reassembled and gave it a new mixture of fuel (does oil go off? My original mix was old oil) Started on the third pull and half...

Reed valve is spotless - as I mentioned earlier, I don't think this motor has ever been run. Innards of carb all clean and dry (apart from 2S oil as you'd expect), no gum or residue anywhere at all. 50:1 is what I have - will reassemble and try again tomorrow and see if the plug is getting...