Re: Request for a recommendation.

On 10/5/2024 8:44 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
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    https://www.amazon.com/Engines-L-Sprague-Camp/dp/B0006BZMX8

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That is a wild picture.  I can tell you from experience, working on a outboard engine in the middle of a lake or river is not fun when you drop whatever you were working on in the drink.  In my case, it was the propeller after we ran over a log and broke the prop key.  One should always have a spare prop and several keys on board.
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Lynn

 Try this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin#Transatlantic_crossing
 In 1950, Ben Carlin and his wife drove a (heavily modified)
amphibious Jeep across the Atlantic. He had to change the
head gasket in mid-ocean.
 pt

One of the senior engineers at TXU in the 1980s was chief engineer of the USS Enterprise in the late 1970s.  They had a F-14 fail to launch in the South China Sea and ran over it at 35 knots.  The F-14 got tangled in two of the four props and bent the prop shaft on a third propeller. They proceeded to Japan at 2 knots on one prop and managed to partially dry dock her to cut the F-14 loose.  They then headed back to San Diego at 10 knots for a real dry dock to replace the all prop shafts and the props.
Lynn