Boat Porn!

[singlecross]

Boat Porn? Ayuh!

[Jong Lafitte]

Oh please tell me that's like an '88 Chapparelle (sp?).

[singlecross]

Whoops

[refried]

Outboard powered Hinkley

[Supermoon]

Purdy. You at the Seattle Boat Show?

[refried]

Purdy. You at the Seattle Boat Show?

Just got home from setting up

[JimmyCarter]

Outboard powered Hinkley

40s?
Edit: nvrmnd, outboard. 35?

[Mazderati]

She's a beaut.

[singlecross]

Outboard powered Hinkley

Turns heads… and not in a good way while those outboards sound like they are coming apart when the transmissions clunk in an out of gear while docking. Less than elegant.

[Supermoon]

Just got home from setting up

Oh nice! My wife is heading up to work it this weekend. She helps out NW Inboards many years

[refried]

Turns heads… and not in a good way while those outboards sound like they are coming apart when the transmissions clunk in an out of gear while docking. Less than elegant.

I prefer straight shaft inboards but everyone wants to go fast these days and inboards just have way too much drag, plus you gain a ton of room getting the engine out of the bilge. A big problem with that is all that weight that was below the waterline is now above it (Pursuit solves this by Installing SeaKeeper gyros but not everyone wants to add $30,000+ to the cost of a boat). As much as I like inboards I've become a big fan of Yamaha, I see very few problems from them and the same problems over and over with Volvo Penta drives and engines.

[Hopeless Sinner]

Turns heads… and not in a good way while those outboards sound like they are coming apart when the transmissions clunk in an out of gear while docking. Less than elegant.

Not a fan of the outboards, on an otherwise spectacular boat.

[refried]

Not a fan of the outboards, on an otherwise spectacular boat.

They look horrible hanging off the back of it but I've heard it doesn't keep buyers away

[ötzi]

Turns heads… and not in a good way while those outboards sound like they are coming apart when the transmissions clunk in an out of gear while docking. Less than elegant.

That's pretty comical but you be you.

I'll agree that boat looks way better as an inboard but they're trying to sell boats.

[Hopeless Sinner]

They look horrible hanging off the back of it but I've heard it doesn't keep buyers away

Novices w money to burn.

[ötzi]

It's getting hard to find people to work on inboards these days. Nobody wants to crawl around in a bilge getting covered in oil.

[warthog]

Yup, pop one off and replace.
My buddy is a Yamaha tech. Does all the Sheriff's, USAF (MacDill AFB), and Police boats locally.
He turns down I/O and inboard work all the time.

The good guys are old, and old guys don't want to work on their knees and back.

[warthog]

It's getting hard to find people to work on inboards these days. Nobody wants to crawl around in a bilge getting covered in oil.

This is true of so many trades now, and only going to get worse. Best learn how to do a lot of stuff for ourselves. It's gonna get ugly.

[ötzi]

Not to get too off track but a couple weeks back the front page of the paper here had two articles almost side-by-side, "Labor Shortage Deepens" and "Republicans Decry 'Border Crisis'". Hmm.

[Hopeless Sinner]

It's getting hard to find people to work on inboards these days. Nobody wants to crawl around in a bilge getting covered in oil.

Times have changed I guess. Unless I win the lottery I'll never have the offshore boat of my dreams anyway.

[teleee]

Hell I am having a hard time finding someone to take a look at my outboard jet. Learning to do shit myself is pretty much the only option at this point. Yep, its going to get ugly in a lot of trades.


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[oftpiste]

It's getting hard to find people to work on inboards these days. Nobody wants to crawl around in a bilge getting covered in oil.

There are plenty around here. Come on up for a cruise.

[heckacali]

The engine machine shop in Reno I use is closing after 65 years.

Bucha brilliant dirty old dudes are done.

Nobody stepping up to keep it going.

Fuck.

[mud]

This one looked nice.
Poor guy barely made it out alive.

https://twitter.com/USCGPacificNW/st...=USCGPacificNW

[k2skier112]

Turns heads… and not in a good way while those outboards sound like they are coming apart when the transmissions clunk in an out of gear while docking. Less than elegant.

Is that a white Merc, E-tec? Looks way too small for 7 Marine

If you can hear an outboard shifting in the water, (more than a soft clunk) the clutch dog is fuct or the RPM's are way to high