Looking at all the wonderful $5-7000 suggestions..... how bad is your A4?
Does it need an infusion of the auxiliary stuff, like fuel injection instead
of the carb and an electronic ignition? Or is the block/head/and so forth
all history???
I would think if you have been getting nickled and dimed to death for
years - a big in-place overhaul/update of a reasonably good A4 would be more
economical than a 10hp outboard.
If you are looking for doing it on the cheap with a used outboard, then you
will have to put up with a few problems. 1. The behavior in the chop is not
good - you have a long boat and putting the motor on the back will bounce it
in and out of the water a bunch.... I am on a J-24 and a J-80 and they are
both afflicted with "prop spinning" disease. 2. The torque vs. hp
situation - a regular outboard in the 10hp range is not built to push 5000
pounds, it is usually pushing about 1000. The alternative of the high torque
motor is expensive. 3. The pain in the a.. of having to hang over the stern
to either raise the motor or tilt it.... on a little boat like the J-24, it
is a bother to raise the motor mount (35 pound motor!) and then tilt it. On
the 80 (26 feet and low transom) we just tilt it - easier. They don't make
outboards with folding props..
If you want to get somewhat elegant, you could get rid of all the inboard
stuff and put the outboard in a well - a couple of feet behind the keel and
in front of the rudder. My friend's Thunderbird (26+ feet - 4500 pounds) has
that arrangement and the motor slides up into the boat and a little trap
door fits where it came from. Smooth, and keeps the spinning prop problem at
a minimum.
I would go for the overhaul.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul and Darlene Clarke via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
To: <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 1:28 PM
Subject: Stus-List Thoughts on repowering with outboard
My wife and I are beginning to think it may be time to convert our C & C 27,
which we’ve had for 5 years, to a transom-mounted outboard engine from its
original (1972) Atomic 4. Any listers have experience with a project like
this, advice, or suggestions? The boat is sound, of course, as is the rig
and sails, but the A4 engine is requiring infusions of $$ every year, and is
not reliable. Every year we’ve been scuppered, and I want reliability
without the cost of a new inboard… hence the idea to try the outboard route.
Thoughts?
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