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Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

14 August 2013, 21:58

Replies: 24

Will a 10hp motor get my Yam 340S onto the plane?

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Posted By neil9327

10% of 15hp is 1.5 gallons/hour = 6.8 litres/hour...

10% of 15hp is 1.5 gallons/hour = 6.8 litres/hour

Over 2 hours is 13.6 litres = 26% of the tank.

So my engine was running at around 50% efficiency given that I had used around half the tank.
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Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

14 August 2013, 21:53

Replies: 24

Will a 10hp motor get my Yam 340S onto the plane?

Views: 5,085

Posted By neil9327

Well who knows.. I guess I could go back to the...

Well who knows.. I guess I could go back to the scene and have a hunt around for it, but I'm not sure it would be worthwhile. I did pass a fisherman a few hundred meters before though.

The only...

Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

14 August 2013, 21:44

Replies: 24

Will a 10hp motor get my Yam 340S onto the plane?

Views: 5,085

Posted By neil9327

A friend bought the tank some years ago. ...

A friend bought the tank some years ago.

Bombing around the needles, Isle of Wight I have in the past gone through half the tank in 2 hours or so. Perhaps it is burning fuel a little...

Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

14 August 2013, 21:35

Replies: 24

Will a 10hp motor get my Yam 340S onto the plane?

Views: 5,085

Posted By neil9327

Well I do confess to giving it a bit of welly...

Well I do confess to giving it a bit of welly once or twice on the trip. But 18mph is a tad over the 4mph speed limit so I didn't do it more than a few seconds.

Apparently the wash from high...

Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

14 August 2013, 21:21

Replies: 24

Will a 10hp motor get my Yam 340S onto the plane?

Views: 5,085

Posted By neil9327

Just me (72Kg). No kit. So it looks like a...

Just me (72Kg). No kit.

So it looks like a yes then :)

Thanks all!

Hopefully I won't get my new motor nicked too.

I think I was a bit unlucky with the current one. I had tied my boat up...

Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

14 August 2013, 20:47

Replies: 24

Will a 10hp motor get my Yam 340S onto the plane?

Views: 5,085

Posted By neil9327

Will a 10hp motor get my Yam 340S onto the plane?

I had a 15hp Mariner outboard with my Yam 340S SIB, and it performed well, getting the boat onto the plane, and a top speed of 15 mph.

Unfortunately the engine was stolen at the weekend. :mad:
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Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

09 May 2013, 16:35

Replies: 14

Techniques for launching without a slipway?

Views: 5,746

Posted By neil9327

You're making the assumption that if and when I...

You're making the assumption that if and when I applied for the licence that that was the size of engine I had on the boat..

Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

08 May 2013, 22:14

Replies: 14

Techniques for launching without a slipway?

Views: 5,746

Posted By neil9327

I didn't know that. I thought it was only speed...

I didn't know that. I thought it was only speed limits that were enforced.

In fact I have taken the boat onto the Basingstoke canal twice, because (ironically) there is a slipway near Winchfield....

Forum: RIBs & ribbing

06 May 2013, 16:23

Replies: 456

Tragedy at Padstow - 5 May 2013

Views: 93,614

Posted By neil9327

We've got enough regulation and nanny state in...

We've got enough regulation and nanny state in this country - we don't need any more.
The government should recommend and educate, not enforce. If people want to go out and kill themselves after...

Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

05 May 2013, 23:29

Replies: 14

Techniques for launching without a slipway?

Views: 5,746

Posted By neil9327

Well thank you all for an overwhelming response...

Well thank you all for an overwhelming response to my question.
I feel honoured :)

I think the answer, as suggested by Mr Millard, is to use a smaller engine, perhaps an electric one.
This would...

Forum: Inflatable boats - SIBs and folding RIBs

05 May 2013, 17:46

Replies: 14

Techniques for launching without a slipway?

Views: 5,746

Posted By neil9327

Techniques for launching without a slipway?

I have a 3-meter long Yam inflatable, with a 15hp outboard motor.
With a slipway it is easy to launch - I just attach the wheels to the stern, pick it up at the bow, and roll it down the slope....

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