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Should be room for the engine head on port and prop behind the gas tank on starboard. However, when sailing it's recommended that the engine be on the cabin sole with the head in the companion doorway. Otherwise water in the engine can migrate to the bearings below the engine's head when the boat is healed going to weather.
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Thanks Bill. Just to clarify, the engine laid down on the cabin sole? Not sure what "with the head in the companion doorway" means?
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AH H H! Those were the days -- when I crewed for the Admiral
weekend racing. [actually Bill was teaching me how to sail]
There were three of us aboard and the stern ran low to the water,
you could see lapping just below the well.
Bill was invariably in the companionway making sure we started the
race exactly on time and rounded the cans on the proper side. Also
was in charge of when the sandwiches came out, being he is the
skipper of MaiTai, the yellow avenger of the racing fleet.
After we left the estuary and raised the sails, the OB was lifted out of
the well and placed down below with the motor at the steps, the prop
laid pointing forward. The lazaret became quite wet under the hatch.
The motor was a 6-2, I believe, and was manageable even tho it had
to be handed thru the c'way. I don't remember smelling gasoline below.
But I do remember thinking, it's the damnedest thing that the motor
has to come out because it's a drag when it isn't running. It made us
officially an engineless racer. But I don't think it mattered.
The only sailors that always won were Ed Ekers and Ernie Rideout.
Don't know if they were motorless, or where they kept their Ariel, but
they always seemed accompanied by a bevy of angels.
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Could say consequences led me to cut a slot in the Ariel's transom
to be able to raise the OB shaft out of the water. And given where the
hinge is placed, a good way above the water. Another story, much of
which can be found here in these forums.
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"head in the doorway" -- the power head of the ob should be facing forward and over the center of the keel. (If you have a Commander, there's no door.) Lay the ob on the side the mfg specifies. As Ebb noted, if left in the ob well while sailing things can get pretty wet.
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I stowed my 6-4 Merc in the laz, but 'twere a royal pain to put in/take out while underway even on flat water, without smashing meaty body parts between hard boat/motor parts in the process. Always wanted to try one of the folding Garhauer cranes to make it easier. Thinking now that a smaller - and thus significantly lighter - engine might be the way to go, while understanding that it would mean forgetting schedules. But that's the idea, the dream.
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( Our Great Mover and Shaker may want to mover this. BUT, may I
point out, we aren't talking ABOUT outboards, but their bulk and
oddness. This is more about where the well is in relation to other
important in-use boat real-estate.)
ON MOVING THE PORTABLE AUXILARY FROM ITS RIGHTFUL DOMAIN
TO ANOTHER SECTION OF THE VESSEL...…………..{Ses.IIbTx w - 750}
Kurt, the removal of a 57lb 6-4 Merc* from the well to the cabin sole
inside the Ariel ( I have observed this a number of times, but years
ago when we were younger and stronger) : IT TAKES THREE ADULTS
TO ACCOMPLISH and includes retrieving the OBmotor back out of the
cabin, returning it to the lazaret, positioned on its correct storage side
while away from the boat. It also requires the well plug to be installed.
In my experience it takes THREE STALWART SAILORS: One to unscrew
the clamps, lift the outboard up & out of the lararet, and rest it on the
cockpit deck -- we do this while the second sailor is in the way manning
the tiller -- the third sailor, usually the Captain, is wedged in the C'way
ready to receive the motor, which is somewhat difficult because it is hot
and wet, and the companionway steps are in the way, steps are where
the pointy bottom of the shaft rests at least once on its way down into
the accommodation.. And on its way back up..
This description does not include the number of practice runs it takes
to become proficient in this on-the-water OB motor ballet. We became
experts, bodyparts and varnishwork excluded. Nor how the motor was
secured to the cabin sole when the Ariel was jumping around racing.
………………………………..Those were the days!!!...……………………………….
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*poetic license allows me to use Kurt's rather light weight 4stroke. Can't
remember what motor we became part of on the MaiTai, probably about
the same in a two stroke.