Boat Handling Challenge

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Here's one for the folks with Honda twins...

I was watching an archeology program on the History channel this morning. They were in Micronesia exploring some huge basalt structures that were built on a coral reef about 1300 AD.

The boat being used was panga style with twin Hondas. As the camera panned back to the engines, it revealed the boat operator sitting atop one engine and running both via individual tillers.

Anyone want to try that? Not me...

 

[JamesTXSD]

Folks who sail small sailboats with outboard auxiliary power frequently motorsail with the boat tiller and the outboard tiller. It's a learned skill. Doesn't mean I'd care to tackle that learning curve with two big outboards. :wink:

As I read your post, I thought you were going to say something about ancient Hondas from 1300 AD.

 

[Beflyguy]

This is interesting. I actually had a theory that if you could put twin motors at different angles \ / and put one in forward and one in reverse, that you move the boat sideways. I tested the theory with a small boat and two electric trolling motors and it worked surprisingly well. What I want to do now is to fix a device to lock the main motors at angles to each other in a maneuvering mode and to control them with a joystick. Shouldn't be too hard with the Tomcats electronic controls.

 

[Sea Wolf]

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As I read your post, I thought you were going to say something about ancient Hondas from 1300 AD.

Yup, that's when they first developed their finicky bank of four paralleled carburetors!

Fortunately, they finally succumbed to the forces of economic pressure, and changed over to electronic fuel injection back about circa 2008 A.D. :lol:

Joe. :teeth :thup

 

[Pacificcoast101]

A buddy of mine broke his steering cable on his out drive one day. Not wanting to miss out on diving, they manually pushed and shoved the outdrive to get to the next dive site, then called Vessel Assist later.