Harry
P14 #234, Manatee
Forty Plus Seagull
Mountain View, CA
>Thanks for setting the record straight. I can't say that it makes any sense
>to me why, in a design where light weight and compactness are a prime
>consideration, a company would choose to carry the complexity and extra parts
>of two types of cooling systems - forced air AND water cooling. But it that's
>the way it is, then that's the way it is and I'm glad you've corrected my
>error. I apologize to those I've mislead and to the shop I suggested was
>incompetent or dishonest.
>
>Unfortunately, this knowledge decreases my desire to buy one of these engines
>by about 90%. I perceived one of the big advantages of the air cooled engine
>as making it unecessary to run the engine in a big bucket of fresh water in
>order to rinse out the saltwater from the water pump, internal passages, etc.
>after saltwater use. The Mercury 2.2 that I have now often spends more time
>running in the bucket than it did pushing the boat!
>
>Maybe paddles aren't so bad after all.....
>
>Dave Kautz
>P-15 #1632 Tilly Lucy
>Palo Alto, CA