Mercury Through The Years...

**lilabner** · 01-06-2018, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

Any pictures of the six engine boat? I think we are past the statute of limitations---Maybe Butler??

Wasn't that your folly Gene, with Doc and Jack Greenberg? crossing the Atlantic..

**GENE LANHAM** · 01-06-2018, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by lilabner

Wasn't that your folly Gene, with Doc and Jack Greenberg? crossing the Atlantic..

Not a folly, Butch. More like a 'wet dream'---

**lilabner** · 01-06-2018, 05:56 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

Not a folly, Butch. More like a 'wet dream'---

Jack had the same opinion..You got a GPS mark where all the engines are?

**lilabner** · 01-06-2018, 05:57 PM

I meant Loran...

**Robby321** · 01-06-2018, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

...Lost a lot of gearcases, using the standard gearcases, and the those 2-blades. Pulled the spanner rings right out of them. The standard "locked-left" gearcases on the port side of this photo, sometimes lasted a bit longer. Dan U...If you knew how slow, heavy, and cumbersome, these old Magnum/Cigarette hulls were...you would understand why the outer engines gearcases, even though they were on the high side of the 24 degree hull, didn't have too much problem getting water, lol. Within a year or so, many switched to using BP or MC1 gearcases on 24 degree offshores.

No need tell me about above in bold! Had a 74 Switzer SS17 with the new XS 1500. Boat built Bob Switzer special, Ralph Kozan massaged the motor, rigged by (King of the cushion Outlaws Sprints cars, Jim Moulis ran Fox lake harbor), horizontal race rams, trim only no tilt. Ran a surface 2 B SS 14x28 cupped, and damn sure tore up the LU case! Simple needed more "meat" Tried then 4 sit screws (pinned) but cant fix that expanding case. Still ****house fun that boat, and damn! Sure got the girls asking "take me for a ride", and after.."got to ride them"! Speed, fun, "hold my beer", is COSTLY, but worth it!

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**GENE LANHAM** · 01-06-2018, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by lilabner

I meant Loran...

---and OMEGA----GPS hadn't been invented----

**GENE LANHAM** · 01-06-2018, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

... even though they were on the high side of the 24 degree hull, didn't have too much problem getting water, lol. Within a year or so, many switched to using BP or MC1 gearcases on 24 degree offshores.

Not exactly

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These six engine boats did not appear until the 1971 season. At the end of the 1970 season, I had run out of SBP LU parts. Obviously the SBP lower unit would have been ideal. With it's choice of gear ratios. low water pickup, and props. But it was done! Kaput! Fini! And it had a predicted life of only 4 to 8 hours--

The MC-1 was a shot in the dark. No large props were available. Only 2 gear ratios were available. And it was not legal!!

The only choice was the fishing motor lower unit--and we had been running the left hand units since 1967---(with bronze carriers)---

But---I started all this looking for pictures of the Six Engine Transatlantic boat!!
Shouldn't be hard to find---it was 50' by 15' and had six V-6's on the transom!!