Backing up boats

Rye Gewalt (ryeg@vais.net)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:20:09 -0400


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If the boat goes the same direction with the prop on backwards then how
do boats back up?

Sounds like green scum to me. <Grin>

Rye

Harry Gordon Wrote:

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put the prop on backwards? If you
could do so, the prop would still push the boat in the same direction
but
would be less efficient because the curvature of the blades would be
wrong.

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