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Conference wahoo::fishing-v2

Title:Fishing-V2: All About Angling
Notice:Time to go fishin'! dayegins
Moderator:WAHOO::LEVESQUE
Created:Fri Jul 19 1991
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:548
Total number of notes:9621

190.0. "Twin Outboard Engines" by AIMHI::LECLAIR () Tue Jun 23 1992 14:39

    
    
    I was at the marina the other day looking at the new Smoker Craft
    line of boats and Suzuki engines. Suzuki doesn't make at 20hp so
    the sales person was pushing twin 9.9hp insted.
    
    The reason for limiting the HP to 20 is the Quabin and twinn 9.9's
    will qualify.
    
    Two things come to mind when I think of the twin engines 
      1. Twice the Maintenance
      2. Safty of 2 one fails you have the other
    
    Many questions remain or just looking for the pro's and con's. Haven't
    found the info elswhere so I would like to open this note as a
    discussion of twin outboard engines over the single one.
    
    
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190.1TOOK::SWISTJim Swist LKG2-2/T2 DTN 226-7102Wed Jun 24 1992 10:3613
    Discussed at great length in the boating file, dir/tit=twin ought
    to find it.  To summarize:
    
    Advantages:  
       1) Redundancy
       2) Maneuverability.  Can turn on a dime. 
    
    Disadvantages
       1) Fuel consumption worse than equiv single.
       2) Maintenance Costs, complexity, more things to fiddle with.
    
    
    
190.2VICKI::BOATS note 991.*KOLFAX::WHITMANAcid Rain Burns my BassWed Jun 24 1992 17:165
<    Discussed at great length in the boating file, dir/tit=twin 

	   That's VICKI::BOATS  note 991.*    
    
Al
190.3BOATSAIMHI::LECLAIRThu Jun 25 1992 11:175
    
<    Thanks Al looked through the Easynotes directory and didn't see it
     was just goind to ask.
    
    Dick