Archive for the ‘Boats & Boating’ Category


Two boats leave a dock at the same time?

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Two boats leave a dock at the same time. Once boat is headed directly east at a constant speed of 35knots, and the other is headed directly south at a constant speed of 22 knots. Express the distance d between the boats as a function of the time t.

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Is there any information on the web regarding Galaxie California boats?

Friday, October 30th, 2009

I am restoring an ‘89 Galaxie California runabout and cannot find any information on the web regarding this brand of boats.

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I want to sell some old boats. Where would be the best place to advertise them?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The boats are in southern Virginia on a farm. What area might be the best place to advertise them?

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Pratical use of automobile engines in boats ? what are the differences for rust, corrosion protection?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

I’m always dreaming up wild ideas, and I had one for a new breed of high performance personal watercraft – the Tube boat. I want to put a V-8 engine into a very stretched Seadoo-type watercraft, and just use a simple propeller shaft off the back of the engine, with maybe a simple clutch mechanism to engage/disengage the power to the shaft.
Anyway, that all said, I know boats use automobile-type engines, but use special water-cooled exhaust manifolds, etc. What other Boaterizing is done to an automobile engine to make it into a “marine” engine? Any special gimmicks to prevent the corrosion of dissimilar metals inside the motor? If I chose to use a straight car engine, with the watercooled boat manifolds, how long would a motor last without any other mods? Obviously a boat style cooling system as well would be installed . So other than radiator, coolant, and exhaust manifolds, what else would normally be changed?

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so my dad is trying to make me wash boats at his boat company for free this is illegall right?

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I need answers ASAP, this is againts the law right?

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