jay_merrill
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Re: 1972 Evinrude 85 Hp outboard....
Good for your son! I love to see the young ones dig into the motors and learn how to fix them.
Today was day three of the SAR - two young men (16 & 18) who had zero boating experience, no PFDs, no motor on the boat. They decided to go fishing in an aluminum flatboat and launched it on the south shore of Lake Ponchartrain with a SE wind blowing, at four o'clock in the afternoon. The boat was found with no passengers late in the day on Monday, about 16 miles away. I'm not sure of total assets today but yesterday we had 21 boats and two aircraft involved.
Just to keep this somewhat on topic - I used the '69 6hp most of the day to work the shoreline and was again able to get into areas that the bigger boats couldn't. The old girl ran at WOT all day, sipping gas and pushing me at 4.7 mph according to the GPS. The ride back to the boat launch and command center was on a "glass smooth" lake and, aside from the task at hand, pleasant and uneventful.
Good for your son! I love to see the young ones dig into the motors and learn how to fix them.
Today was day three of the SAR - two young men (16 & 18) who had zero boating experience, no PFDs, no motor on the boat. They decided to go fishing in an aluminum flatboat and launched it on the south shore of Lake Ponchartrain with a SE wind blowing, at four o'clock in the afternoon. The boat was found with no passengers late in the day on Monday, about 16 miles away. I'm not sure of total assets today but yesterday we had 21 boats and two aircraft involved.
Just to keep this somewhat on topic - I used the '69 6hp most of the day to work the shoreline and was again able to get into areas that the bigger boats couldn't. The old girl ran at WOT all day, sipping gas and pushing me at 4.7 mph according to the GPS. The ride back to the boat launch and command center was on a "glass smooth" lake and, aside from the task at hand, pleasant and uneventful.