Thread: Any boat types help identify this?

If it is a shaft in the lower unit that is one thing (like prop shaft for example) but if crank it's probably good for parts only. Cheers

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Crank?

I wouldn't have thought so, maybe he may be a bit thick sometimes but aren't we all?

I'm sure he means well.

Originally Posted by ozscott

If it is a shaft in the lower unit that is one thing (like prop shaft for example) but if crank it's probably good for parts only. Cheers

Info so far seems to point in that direction.

Originally Posted by Tins

Info so far seems to point in that direction.

Crank? Bugger. Cheers

Might be a broken sheer pin, or is that optimism to the max?

Originally Posted by ozscott

Crank? Bugger. Cheers

No, down bottom. But it's all 3rd hand until I get up there...

Originally Posted by Tins

No, down bottom. But it's all 3rd hand until I get up there...

Yep good mate.

Ian those size outboards ran a rubber hub in the prop that could sheer (no pin through the prop shaft like the smaller outboards). Cheers

Originally Posted by ozscott

Yep good mate.

Ian those size outboards ran a rubber hub in the prop that could sheer (no pin through the prop shaft like the smaller outboards). Cheers

Boats have never been my thing, hence my level of incompetence is restricted to those of an SES floodboat coxain.

Funny story, not related to the original enquiry.
My group had four units, two of which had floodboats that I was qualified to captain.
State decided to upgrade the group's vessels, so the group asked to retain the old boats, allowing each unit to have a floodboat. That occurred, but the old boats' registration had to be changed to pleasurecraft. I was immediately not qualified to operate the vessels that I had been legally operating for years. I needed to get a boat licence.