Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering why you went with an outboard setup. To me it would have been just as realistic as an inboard.
Awesome work anyway.
Thanks Paul , no real reason in particular , just wanted to challenge meself into scratch/frankenstein building outboards .
I've always had outboards , I'm a believer in " not losing any on the water time " .
If your inboard shats the bed , your boat is od till it's fixed , could be weeks or more .
Inboard engine trouble , even with twins with only one engine in trouble , you still have to take the boat out of the water to get her fixed .
Yeah , you don't always have to take the boat out of the water , yes it can be worked on while in the water [ depending on the problem ] but till it's fixed it's tied up at the dock till it's fixed .
If your outboard shats the bed , swap it out and maybe loose a day or two on the water till your original outboard is repaired .
Yeah you've got to buy another outboard but having a spare isn't a bad thing .
Aaaaand if you've got twin outboards you can still run your boat on one engine after removing the broke guy outboard till the other is fixed .
Ask me how I know ............
No that's not my boat , just a ref pick I'm using and no I'm not building an exact replica just using it for guidelines .
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