[Rhodes22-list] HELP! How about a debate on.. WAS: A GREAT Email List

[L. Sailor]

Bill, 
  Thanks!
  I do remember reading it before, but this has got me so turned around...and I don't have the boat even nearby, so I'm really blind in trying to deal with this. Notwithstanding, I have everything to learn about outboards & types & requirements, etc....I figured coming back to the group would point me in the right direction immediately w/o wading through what all the discussion of what may or may not be helpful.
   
  I appreciate the info & will pass it on immediately.
   
  thankyou thankyou thankyou
   
  elle
   
  Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
  Elle,

Get a 4-stroke Tohatsu with electric start and remote control.

Mount the remote control on the forward part of the stern rail, port side.

Feed the remote control cables outside the cockpit to the motor. (Buy 
expensive cables--there are a lot of sharp turns in this set-up and the 
expensive cables will move without binding.)

You will be able to start your motor using a key on the remote control, 
push forward to go forward, pull back to go back, the more you push or 
pull, the faster the engine will go. There is a fast idle device for 
starting if the engine is ever balky. This is a single-lever remote 
control you can learn to use in about 15 seconds. Mine has worked 
flawlessly for years.

You will never again have to turn around to even look at the motor--all 
of the controls will be right there in front of you in a convenient place.

All of this information has been posted before. I say this not for your 
benefit, but for the benefit of whoever's day was made by re-posting 
this information.

If he wants to know about bottom paint, we have discussed that 
endlessly--go to the archives.

Bill Effros


L. Sailor wrote:
> Gang at the bar:
> 
> How about a debate on which engine exists for elle's boat? We cannot find one that has 1) cables coming out the side,) and 2) shifter remote so I can work the controls.
> 
> The way it is now, I would have to lean over the transom, practically hang by my heels to reach the shifter, and steer with my feet while looking aft & down.
> 
> I don't think this is a trend I want to be responsible for starting.
> 
> Seriously, tho', this is a major problem. It has nothing to do with it being a wheel boat...just all the engines I 've found have the cables coming out the front which will hit the motor lift. (And, of course, the shifter problem.) I would like to stay with a Japanese made engine.
> 
> Anyone, ANYONE out there have a suggestion? If I can't get this solved I will have to get rid of the boat.
> 
> I'll be in touch with GBI when they get back from ST. Pete.
> 
> elle
> 
>
> Rick Lange wrote:
> 
>
>
> Joe,
> You must be media deprived. I am bored and irritated to
> find on a sailors' forum the same discussion of politics that's on every
> radio and TV talk show as well as so many other blogs and lists. 
> A
> debate on bottom paint would be refreshing.
> Rick
> 
>> howdy
>> 
> all 
> 
>> I must state that this email list must be run by
>> 
> real 
> 
>> sailors! The topics take on the same range sailors talk
>> 
>
> 
>> about when at the bar, or at a raft-up! Other lists, are 
>> just so &#$%^ bla, and only talk about the 1,000,000 
>>
>> 
> versions of bottom paint or other such thing. 
> 
>> As
>> 
> I've heard my buddy tell me countless times "a bitchin 
> 
> sailor is a happy sailor."! 
> 
>> I'm very happy I
>> 
> found this group! 
> 
>> take care and fair winds! 
>>
>>
>>
>> HADZ (a.k.a. joe) 
>>
>> "That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and
>> 
> hull and a deck 
> 
>> and sails. That's what a ship needs. But what a
>> 
> ship is... is freedom." 
> 
>> -- Captain Jack Sparrow 
>>
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