Gar Wood’s speed records would be the last ones for big single keel boats using multiple engines and steel propellers. The next era of new speed records saw much smaller, single engine boats with new hull designs that reduced drag thus producing higher speeds. Malcolm Campbell From England beat Wood’s 1932 124.86 mph.record five years...
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It seems like all the records and fame that the American Gar Wood was creating in the 1920’s with his four engine and twin boat propellers Miss America boats made some British guys jealous of all that. So an Englishman Lord Wakefield, Castrol Oil Company chairman decided he wanted to bring the record to England with a British boat. He funded a project...
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Mercury 350 horsepower Verado uses Mercury performance boat propellers Mercury has come out this year with their new Outboard Motor the 350 horsepower Verado. Using a 5.44 inch gear case it takes Mercury’s line of performance boat propellers and the after market boat prop makers performance style of boat props. After five years in development the...
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Stainless Steel Boat Props and the Yamaha F350 Outboard Motor/strong> Yamaha’s largest outboard is the four stroke V-8 aluminum block 350 horsepower F350. This is one awesome outboard engine. Stainless steel propellers will work much better than boat propellers that are aluminum because of the high torque these engines make. This...
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Volvo Penta was first to come out with a sterndrive with a single boat propeller in 1959 and they were first with a sterndrive that has two counter rotating boat propellers on a single prop shaft in 1982. The advantages of a sterndrive with two boat props are much less slippage that gives a better bite on the water, improved low speed steering...
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Modern Outboard Motors. Mercury, Evinrude, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Tohatsu-Nissan are the companies that make the outboards today. All make boat propellers in aluminum, and stainless steel propellers too. You can also get after market boat propellers for these engines that in many cases perform just as good and some times even better and usually cost...
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