Missing parts

[Mark Prouty]

gunwale also gunnel

The upper edge of the side of a vessel. [So called because guns are mounted on it.]

[Chip Hindes]

KMC:

I believe that definition of gudgeon is strictly a Briticism. Bonnet, hood backlight, boot, etcetera.

BTW, seems to me there should be more signs of burning and overheating if it were a lube failure.

[kmclemore]

I believe that definition of gudgeon is strictly a Briticism. Bonnet, hood backlight, boot, etcetera.

True...there's a whole other language for UK vs US automotive bits... don't get me started...

BTW, seems to me there should be more signs of burning and overheating if it were a lube failure.

Depends... but in this case note the blueish discolouration of the connecting rod... perhaps the gudgeon (wristpin, piston pin) may have seized in the little end... but the quote from my dad was really just in fun anyway... not necessarily directly pertinient.

[waternwaves]

Mark..... is that a hobie with a "launcher" for Estes or Century products... on the starboard side....... or is it a flare.......

Perfect......

But I think the rule was no less than 60 degreees off of horizontal....
and ya cant count 20 deg for the hobie, and 40 degress off horizontal together...to get 60.,... lol.....

darren

[Scott]

Chiming in to agree with chip that lube failure would show signs of burning, providing the lube failure wasnt in the sleeve causing seizure or hanging on a port chamfer. (Appears to be a 2 stroke)

Oh yeah, Craig, I want the Diving plane mod posted post haste!!

[Frank C]

Maybe If I lube the muffler bearings or buy a boat with one of them double clutches, (I can only drive boats with the double clutches) my problems will subside . . .

. . . except that when your hull subsides, your problems are just beginning to resurface.

[Mark Prouty]

Maybe If I lube the muffler bearings or buy a boat with one of them double clutches, (I can only drive boats with the double clutches) my problems will subside . . .

. . . except that when your hull subsides, your problems are just beginning to resurface.

resurface:


Hull Subsides
Now you're talkin' a whole different kind of boat don't ya know.

I think they just call em sides on a sailboat.

[Scott]

Huh, .......?

[MMMike]

FORE PLAY found in the cabin after dark

[Tom Spohn]

Waternwaves,
I believe the launcher is a "PWC Eliminator"

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... wchelp.htm

[Tom Root]

OK Scott, ya better post your mod how too on that ahem....model!

Loose footed (almost) Main , and Jib, and that headsail boom, whadda improvement that must be!!! Higher and contrasting, powder coated stantions...wow! And that hull, and color coordinated sail design. Man, that would be a real hit in MIAMI!

[waternwaves]

Thanks Tom, I was wondering...lol

While that is a little larger than what I wish to carry.....(going through canadien customs and all........oh wait....those are made in america...and not handguns.......so NAFTA should allow free trade of those across the border) I am reminded of a particular individual in eastern washington that carried small model rockets on a VW van for shock effect... (always suprising to see an armed shuttlecraft....)


and with the caveat that we should never do this at home...

it would be fun......, however I found earplugs to be more legally acceptable for "drowning" out the noise.... and after you are a few miles from the harbors or marinas....or houses......the pwc pretty much disappear out here anyway...

maybe if the missile deployed a large net like they use for catching screeching monkeys.....lol

But, since the subject has come up.....are there places in puget sound that I have not been to yet.....that I should avoid because of PWC's.. from Camano north???

thanks...

Darren