boat dreaming

[Clark Santos]

Haven't bought a boat yet, but will only buy one with a good 
serviceable diesel, fixing motors is expensive and  a foolish waste of 
time. Too many good boats for sale out there in hurricane season. Good 
thing Artie and Doug didn't sell you a Suzuki, it would have been much 
to large for your boat, that probably had a hull speed of 7 kn. max. 
You could have had a nice 4 foot bow wave to amuse onlookers.

CLARK

On Jul 17, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

Clark,

This has a 10hp Yanmar diesel, right? Are you going to pull it and 
rebuild? Or maybe it doesn't need rebuilding.

I once dreamt of rebuilding a Suzuki 3 banger from a Metro from Artie 
Osborne to bolt to an engine stand in my living room, the engine stand 
yellow or red from Harbor Freight. It was to go into my sailboat after 
i ripped out the centerboard. Then the sailboat would be a power boat. 
Keep the manual transmission, extend one of the CV struts for the drive 
shaft. Cooling and exhaust would be unimaginable difficult but perhaps 
doable.

I hit up on Artie, took him to lunch, tried to get him to part me out 
an engine from one or another of his wrecked Chevy Metros which he and 
Doug Breeding
bought at auction (Tuesday every two weeks). He even took me out there 
once and sneaked me into the auction which is not public, ya know. But 
he/they never came
across on this project. I couldnt make them like me
so why would they cooperate?

The project is described in my shaggy dog story at 
http://www.charlesumlauf.com/boat.htm including
technical details and a black and white picture taken
by subscriber Han Otto of the boat abuilding in my living room circa 
1980.

You will remember, Clark, that I spoke with you about
15 years ago regarding surplus Japanese car engines which were sold in 
Houston at that time.

I am glad to hear that you got you a Watkins 27 in your
back yard.
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clark Santos"
> You guys got me shaking in my boots! So I found this nice looking unit 
> for $5000...

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