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[SeaSpark]

Guess they are used to go fast.

I am not an expert on high speed motor boats but i do know that multiple prop boats lose efficiency becourse of the drag from shafts. Outboard engine shafts have more shaft drag then inboard engines. Most high speed single hulled boats have only one shaft. So have large bulk carriers and tankers where efficiency also is very important. This is one of the reasons why surface piercing propellors were developed, their shaft is at water level so has almost no drag.

Read somewhere on the forum about the red boat by Ranchi. Those engines happened to be available so were used, they were more cheap then a new single engine with same hp.

[Wellydeckhand]

Pirate in Asia prefer multiple outboard....... fast runner and hunter......

[safewalrus]

Welly got it, good smuggler too (loose an engine it don't matter, harldly slows you down, can still outrun the Navy, Customs, Police etc!) More is better - maybe!

[SeaSpark]

Welly, Walrus, how dare you say Ranchy is a smuggler!

Of course there are many reasons to use multiple props, reliability, maneuverability, compensating for the wheel effect are some of them. I just think that when efficiency and speed are your goal a single prop is better in most cases.

[Wellydeckhand]

I think the pirate stole six boat outboard and fixed it to a sleek long hull....... economical situation, if one of the engine pop then they just go around and steal another.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by safewalrus

Whoops

guess the moral is don't leave the galley stove on when you go for a wee!

Seriously sad for the owner(s) tho'

The story is in the link. Boat owner working on his engine, it back fired igniting fumes and causing a fire. The guy has burns on his face and arms, had to be evacuated by ambulance helicopter.

[safewalrus]

Welly reckon you got it!

Seaspark didn't say he was a smuggler . . . . but with those engines he'd be daft not too

[hansp77]

you know those moments when you are walking along and somone in front of you who is walking towards you turns to your right as you do, and then turns left as you do, and then right again, and then before you know it, you are face to face with a stranger?

Whats this guys excuse?

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by hansp77

you know those moments when you are walking along and somone in front of you who is walking towards you turns to your right as you do, and then turns left as you do, and then right again, and then before you know it, you are face to face with a stranger?

Whats this guys excuse?

Turn #3...................laughs at you.

[Robert Gainer]

Originally Posted by hansp77

Whats this guys excuse?

Well, it says Temporary Insanity on the side of the boat.
Robert Gainer

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Robert Gainer

Well, it says Temporary Insanity on the side of the boat.
Robert Gainer

Temporary Insanity II.......................what happened to I?

Oh well, guess he will be making a downpayment on Temporary Insanity III soon.

[kach22i]

NOAA MOBILIZES RESOURCES TO AID IN RECOVERY FROM HURRICANE KATRINA
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2494.htm

[kach22i]

Many boat pictures here:

http://www.ingenious.org.uk/See/Tran...atertransport/

Sample:

[Vega]

At 15 of this month, a strange thing happened (again) in the Ciutadella port in Menorca; they call it the "rissaga" . The water suddenly goes completely away at low tide and then it comes again, really fast....not good for boats

This is really odd, because the Med has almost no tides (not more than 0.5m).

(Pictures taken by Francisco Olives.)

[fiberglass jack]

Vega you should open a boat repair bussness down there looks like plenty of work to go around