Saving Old Seagulls

I am going to be near this and think I might need it for my canoe, anyone ever seen one before?

Did some looking and think it might be an otterbine jet with a 2 hp briggs engine.

Think of how loud it would be to have an air cooled lawn mower running about 2' away from your ear, while you are out trying to enjoy nature and the great outdoors.

I think water jet engines tend to be a little lacking in the thrust department. As Phil says a lot of noise for not much drive. If you want a classic outboard to put on a canoe, try an Anzani minor or a small Elto?

LOL, you civilized easterners. Enjoy nature, the great out doors To me enjoying nature is laying under the apple tree in the back yard well with in reach of the fridge, and the couch. Everything else outside is work and hardship and the seeds of arthritis. Yeah noise, yeah not much power ( you described ME perfectly)........... When I am enjoying the great outdoors I am usually being crushed under a 60-150 pound pack, being eaten to pieces by bugs, starving, wet, cold, hot..................... Look at a 800 pound ungulate laying in 4 inches of water 20 kms from the truck and being able to get a canoe to it before the griz show up might seem desirable Gasoline is the wonder calorie converter of the ages. You need to pack an awful lot of Kraft dinner and jerky to get the same work potential as 500 ml of gasoline.

Seriously though your both 100% right I cannot see it having much thrust and it might be prone to fouling in weeds and it certainly would require muffs (like all OBs) but if it would help move wieght in the bush just once it might be worth the asking price. I'll at least go take a look at it and if it looks like the pump impeller is whole pick it up. Where I live here is "jet boat" country everyone owns a 75K river boat. If it proves useless I am betting I could double my money on it in the pub parking lot on friday night selling it as a trolling motor to someone with 60 dollar an hour fuel cost jet boat.

OK here it is. Runs like a top smooth and super quiet, water cooled exhaust exits into the heavy leg and sounds plesant. Tecumseh 4 HP head. Lot more thrust then I would have thought. I guess the lack of a 90 degree gear box mitigates the jets inefficiency.

http://s1366.photobucket.com/user/seagu ... 7.mp4.html

Gonna take it to the lake tonite and see how it pushes. It is growing on me. With fresh paint it would be a looker.