Recommented Motor Shaft Length (HMS18)

Rye Gewalt (ryeg@vais.net)
Wed, 03 Feb 1999 06:10:44 -0500


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Based on the input I have received on the list, the BHP Nissan/Tohatsu
is the hands down winner for a good size for the '19 --- thanks all for
your comments. (Somehow I knew it would come out that way...)

Now I have to anguish over shaft length. I suspect that the long shaft
outboard is also the best bet --- even though the stainless steel swing
down watch-a-ma-call-it on my transom would probably allow me to use a
short shaft motor. The cost differential isn't that much....

My conservative Lutheran background seems to be pulling me toward a 2
cycle motor as I was taught never to buy something that hasn't been well
proven in the field. I guess that's why I had a string of five new VWs
(all the same color) in the 60's and 70's --- what a trauma when they
stopped selling them....

Cheers
Rye Gewalt
'90 HMS 18
Springfield, VA