Inboard or outboard in the survival situation ?

[Ben Dockrell 22]

Hello

Inboard or outboard in the survival situation ?

Whats going to work best ?

May i ask how did your motor perform in bad conditions and what model is it or was it ?

Did it let you down ? put you at further risk ?

 

[alant]

Hello

Inboard or outboard in the survival situation ?

Whats going to work best ?

May i ask how did your motor perform in bad conditions and what model is it or was it ?

Did it let you down ? put you at further risk ?

If its "survival situation" & needed an engine, I'd not be concerned about inboard/outboard, as long as it actually worked.

 

[jimi]

I've heard helicopter engines are ace in survival situations

 

[Blackfeather]

Ben

It says in your profile that your location is 'planet earth' - are you sure?

 

[Colvic Watson]

Inboard. Been caught out in the nasties off Belgium with an outboard powered cat. Even though the o/b was 20 foot from the bow of a 27 foot boat we still had major cavitation issues, it would frequently be out of the water as we hobby horsed. Inboards will generally do this less because the prop is usually lower.

 

[srp]

An old-fashioned inboard diesel will be much better than a modern petrol-engine outboard with electronic ignition. I'm thinking particularly of a situation such as an attack by aliens using electro-magnetic pulse weapons, which would obviously destroy sensitive ECUs and suchlike.

 

[RFML]

The gift that keeps on giving.

A drogue, long oars and distance to shore. Much better than an engine.


(says the bloke who has decided he wants a motorboat).

 

[Talbot]

No contest in survival conditions.

Inboad is deeper so there is less cavitation.

The propellor is normally (except on race boats!) designed to swing a much larger bladed propellor, more slowly. This provides more thrust and less cavitation losses than a small prop spinning very fast.

 

[Tommyrot]

Nuclear, inside a submarine. Much safer away from the rough bits up top.

 

[boguing]

Small electric outboard for ultimate reliabilty. You can run them on AAA cells too.

 

[ianj99]

Ben

It says in your profile that your location is 'planet earth' - are you sure?

Watch out - I'm on his black list for making the same comment. I think he'll be getting long trousers soon.

 

[electrosys]

Ben, Ben, Ben ....

Yet another post about survival situations.

Question - have you done any actual sailing in your boat yet ?

As and when you do, you may develop a more reasoned perspective.

Suggest you try a bit of day-sailing in reasonable conditions before you develop ambitions of putting your life in peril by crossing oceans, or whatever it is that you have in mind for the future.




I've just had a look at Ben D's personal profile - joined on the 1st April ! Well done, you had me fooled ...

Ok, Ok - I admit I was suckered - I tend to treat people as being genuine. Too trusting I guess. I'd never make a conman.

Well done Ben, whoever you are.

 

[ianj99]

Ben, Ben, Ben ....

Yet another post about survival situations.

Question - have you done any actual sailing in your boat yet ?

As and when you do, you may develop a more reasoned perspective.

Suggest you try a bit of day-sailing in reasonable conditions before you develop ambitions of putting your life in peril by crossing oceans, or whatever it is that you have in mind for the future.




I've just had a look at Ben D's personal profile - joined on the 1st April ! Well done, you had me fooled ...

Ok, Ok - I admit I was suckered - I tend to treat people as being genuine. Too trusting I guess. I'd never make a conman.

Well done Ben, whoever you are.

Yep, seen him surfing around cloud cuckoo land smoking a joint...

 

[Three kings]

Once you have the right emergency headgear you'll be fine.

 

[IJL]

Get a goat to steer, much better than an engine, if you're going to Belgium make sure the goat feed isn't red or they send you to the chocolate mines

 

[ianj99]

Get a goat to steer, much better than an engine, if you're going to Belgium make sure the goat feed isn't red or they send you to the chocolate mines

The Brussel Sprout factory more like. Its wind powered I heard.

 

[Wunja]

My inboard let me down. After 21 hours of motoring through a flat calm, it ran out of fuel. Therefore I'm seriously considering replacing it with an outboard.

 

[Reptile Smile]

Ben, most people who own boats that I know do relatively little sailing (much more painting and polishing and posting on forums goes on that actual sailing) and those that do do very little medium-to-heavy weather sailing, never mind survival sailing...

Outboards don't have much to commend them - they're cheap and portable. That's about it. And for some applications, that makes them perfect. But a boat of a certain size comes with an inboard, and that's all she wrote, really. Boats that are smaller than this with outboards are not really the kind of things that you find yourself in survival situations in... Or else where would it all end? Doing the Fastnet race on a lilo?

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

Ben, most people who own boats that I know do relatively little sailing (much more painting and polishing and posting on forums goes on that actual sailing) and those that do do very little medium-to-heavy weather sailing, never mind survival sailing...

Outboards don't have much to commend them - they're cheap and portable. That's about it. And for some applications, that makes them perfect. But a boat of a certain size comes with an inboard, and that's all she wrote, really. Boats that are smaller than this with outboards are not really the kind of things that you find yourself in survival situations in... Or else where would it all end? Doing the Fastnet race on a lilo?

"Ben, most people who own boats that I know do relatively little sailing (much more painting and polishing and posting on forums goes on that actual sailing")

I was getting that impression yes.

"and that's all she wrote, really."
I dont understand this /your context, its not mine.

 

[Reptile Smile]

Just a saying I picked up from somewhere. Can't remember where. Think it might have been a skit of 'Murder She Wrote' or something...