[Public-list] Inboard Replacement

[John]

I'll chime in and recommend against using an outboard, particularly on a 
transom mounted bracket. I've had two sailboats with this installation... 
and never again. When I REALLY needed the engine, it spent half of it's time 
out of the water spinning around like a demented egg beater. Note that my 
outboards were both mounted on a straight transom - on a counter stern I 
suspect it would be worse. 
 Cutting a hole in the hull for a lazarette installation wouldn't be an 
option for me for the reasons George stated. Even with a lazarette 
installation, I suspect you'd have problems with the propeller coming out of 
the water in steep chop.
 After pricing out the cost of the outboard, external controls, 
installation, etc., and factoring in the detrimental effects to your resale 
value, rebuilding the existing engine could be a very attractive option.

 On 9/11/05, Rachel <penokee at cheqnet.net> wrote: 
> 
> 
> On Sep 11, 2005, at 5:48 PM, <dickdurk at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> >
> >> new outboard is in my mind more reliable and more easily >repaired -
> >> or taken
> >> to a repair shop - than is an inboard.
> >
> > I don't find outboards to be reliable at all. Your Grey marine is what
> > 35 years old? No outboard will match that life expectancy; Your Alberg
> > will go another 35, easy.
> 
> I just have to pipe in here. I'm not saying that the original poster
> should - or shouldn't - replace an inboard with an outboard; but, since
> my 1960 Evinrude Fisherman outboard is still going strong and starting
> on the first pull, I have to disagree that "no outboard will match that
> [35 year] life expectancy."
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> --- Rachel
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