[Rhodes22-list] High-thrust or prop choice?

John Lock jlock at relevantarts.com
Fri May 30 13:31:30 EDT 2008


At 01:23 PM 5/30/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>John,
>Our Yamaha 8 HT both the large high thrust prop and a 13:38 (2.92)
>gear ratio. The regular Yamaha (F series) has a gear ratio of 13:27
>(2.08) Our old Honda (the "Classic 8") had a lower ratio but it was
>still higher than other models in the Honda line and was considered
>by Honda to be "high thrust". Seems to me the ratio was somewhere around 2.33.
>
>Mary Lou
>attached a pic of the old Honda just as a test.

Heh, well we know THAT ain't gonna work!  No clue why the list strips 
your attachments and not mine from the same software.  Thanks for the 
motor info, kinda confirms what I've been reading.

Cheers!

John Lock
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s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
Lake Sinclair, GA
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