boat dreaming

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Clark,

This has a 10hp Yanmar diesel, right? Are you going to 
pull it and rebuild? Or maybe it doesn't need rebuilding.

I once dreamt of rebuilding a Suzuki 3 banger from a 
Metro from Artie Osborne to bolt to an engine stand 
in my living room, the engine stand yellow or red from 
Harbor Freight. It was to go into my sailboat after 
i ripped out the centerboard. Then the sailboat would be 
a power boat. Keep the manual transmission, extend 
one of the CV struts for the drive shaft. Cooling and 
exhaust would be unimaginable difficult but perhaps 
doable.

I hit up on Artie, took him to lunch, tried to get him 
to part me out an engine from one or another of 
his wrecked Chevy Metros which he and Doug Breeding
bought at auction (Tuesday every two weeks). He even 
took me out there once and sneaked me into the auction 
which is not public, ya know. But he/they never came
across on this project. I couldnt make them like me
so why would they cooperate?

The project is described in my shaggy dog story at 
http://www.charlesumlauf.com/boat.htm including
technical details and a black and white picture taken
by subscriber Han Otto of the boat abuilding in my 
living room circa 1980.

You will remember, Clark, that I spoke with you about
15 years ago regarding surplus Japanese car engines 
which were sold in Houston at that time.

I am glad to hear that you got you a Watkins 27 in your
back yard. 

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Clark Santos" 

> You guys got me shaking in my boots! So I found this nice looking unit 
> for $5000...