Where to look ???

[lanason]

Having bought my boat I now need to buy a 5-10 hp aux and an inflatable tender about 9'.
I know i could go out and buy new but a couple of year old one in good condition would be great so where do I look.
I've tried Buy a Boat for under £20,000 and the website.

Where else ??

Adrian


Don't call me "Ian"
Cleopatra - yellow hull called Court Jester. Have you seen her ?

 

[hlb]

Think we've been here before. If it's going on davits, you dont want more than five hp. Or to heavy. 4hp is plenty for a tender IMHO. But you might have different reasons. Also for luging up beaches, small makes a lot of sence. Have a ring round outboard menders and sellers. They normaly have a few trade in models. Was looking for a 10HP one for ToMo the other week. My man in Plymouth said it was like looking for rocking hourse sh*t.

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Haydn

 

[MikeBrazier]

Have a look at http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/

 

[lanason]

Outboard will be moved to Big boats Outboard bracket - so 5hp min needed to use as aux engine IMHO. Inflatable will not have the engine when on the davits.
So I really need some phone numbers or website addresses.

Adrian

Don't call me "Ian"
Cleopatra - yellow hull called Court Jester. Have you seen her ?

 

[hlb]

Oh. I see. So how big is the big boat then. And where are you sailing. I've forgot. 5hp is big enough to lug from one to tother. But on the other hand 10 hp dont sound much to push a BIG boat along.

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Haydn

 

[lanason]

Well as I only have a single V***o with all the comments on here over the last few weeks an aux sounds critical.
The boat is 23 foot and about 2 tons so 5hp is really the minimum as an emergency. At the mo the boat is in Milford Haven, and I would just hate to be a few miles offshore when the v***o decided to object !!!
So a small light tender (inflatable) with an engine that can be shared between both boats sounds like a damn good idea. The beam of Kelisha is about 8'6" so I dont want a tender much bigger than that. But I do have SS davits and a bathing platform to help. !!!!

Adrian

Don't call me "Ian"
Cleopatra - yellow hull called Court Jester. Have you seen her ?

 

[oldgit]

Dear Ian (Grrr)Have you looked in your local freeadds newspaper. Bought a nice Suzuki for £60.00 and a mercury 7.5 for £80.00 recently.

Exercise is bunk.If you are healthy,you do not need it;if you are sick you should not take it.

 

[lanason]

I'll take the mercury off your hands for £60. )))))

Don't call me "Ian"
Cleopatra - yellow hull called Court Jester. Have you seen her ?

 

[oldgit]

Gor blimey another sad s-d with no mates to go out with on a sat night.

Exercise is bunk.If you are healthy,you do not need it;if you are sick you should not take it.

 

[lanason]

Staying in with SWMBO to get brownie points for next weekend - her first trip on the boat. !!!!!!!!!!!

Don't call me "Ian"
Cleopatra - yellow hull called Court Jester. Have you seen her ?

 

[Forbsie]

I just saw a Yamaha in the yard that my boat's in going for £8. Don't know hp though but will ask next time.

 

[hlb]

Ah so!! I know the trouble I have of getting 4hp outboard of my tender. ( only do it once a year before the winter). But I'm old now!! Milford Haven is a bigish place so maybe need engine for BIG boat and little engine for dinghy. (See ToMo) he has a lovely 2 HP Model ( But god knowes what he uses it for)!! So 2 HP for dinghy and 10hp bolted on the back for the big boat. 10% comision for me in the prosess. Can not be bad!

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Haydn

 

[oldgit]

Dear Grrr. sorry,
I would love to sell the engine, but have sold reliable old petrol boat and have bought another with oil burners so need outboard to get back home with.

Exercise is bunk.If you are healthy,you do not need it;if you are sick you should not take it.

 

[Guest]

Got to agree with other comments re 1 engine doing all jobs.

Had a 26ft Binliner a bit back, put a 5hp on the back as aux engine. In flat water with no tide or wind it would do about 1.5kts. It also had to be an ultra long shaft to work on the binliner, but was hopeless and possibly dangerous on the inflatable.

I upgraded to a shiny new 10hp Yamaha but it was far to heavy to lift off the platform onto the zodiac.

If I were you I would buy 2 engines, I for big boat and nice small light 2 stroke for tender. I have got a 3 hp Yamaha Malta on the zodiac now, not very fast but easy to handle etc.

At the risk of trying to flog something my dad might be selling his 8hp Mercury long shaft off his rag and stick thing ( he dosnt know he will be selling it yet cos mums buying him a new 4 stroke for his birthday !!) PM if you are interested.

Hope this helps

 

[jfm]

Re: Talking of 6hp 4 strokes.....

I have a mercury 6hp 4 stroke longshaft for sale. Bort brand new middle of last summer. Totally mint, with manuals, fuel tank, guarantee, and literally less than 1 hour running. Not a scratch or mark on it. UK supplied, not grey import. Will sell for 70% of best price you can find for a new one. Available in Buckinghamshire or NorthWest

 

[ToMo]

I got a little plastic tender I use it on...it goes like sh** off a shovel!

 

[Chris771]

Adrian,

Try the canal boat dealers and engine specialists as you will find in Canal & Riverboat or Waterways World, as canallers only use little engines.

I bought my 5 hp Honda 4 stroke from a guy on the Lancaster Canal who fixes and sells engines. It would happily push my Skibsplast 700 along at about 4.5 to 5 kts at about half throttle. Cost me £300 though, but I did want a 4 stroke.

It will be interesting to see what it does with my Antares 760 when I get that in July, as my use is exactly the same as yours. I need an outboard for the inflatable which is about max size for that and also an engine which will push the big boat along at a speed marginally greater than the tide in the unlikely event that the big engine should fail.

Well, it was the unlikely event with the Yanmar, but I've ordered the 760 with a single 200hp V*lv*, so does that (after reading recent comments) make the event significantly more likely now?

The amount of power required to push a boat at her displacement speed is remarkably small. The displacement speed of a hull is roughly 1.4 x sq root of the waterline length so for the 760 will be about 7 kts. To achieve this would probably require about 7-8hp based on the hull form so I reckon that 5 hp will probably push me along at around 4 knots, so I think that 5hp would move you quite adequately and 10hp would move you at full displacement speed.

The only time that we require the big horsepower is when we want to lift the boat and all the excess equipment carried therein, onto the plane and go.

Chris

 

[hlb]

Well you never showed m e that. Only the two engines for BIG boat. One 4hp one 2HP and both complete Wa***res IMHO!! Whatch this place!

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Haydn

 

[ToMo]

If I told you everything...you'd be as wise as me!
and that would never do!
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TôMö

 

[jon_bailey]

Try www.adtrader.co.uk the on-line version of free-ads newspapers. Note that telephone numbers are premium rate.

or www.loot.com

I hope these help.