Thursday, April 3, 2008

Efficient Outboards

So if you are a small operator in the fishing fleet here, you have a canoe, a paddle, a cooler, a buddy, a pair of flip-flops, shorts and a t-shirt and one of these outboards. They are small Honda engines like we use to run our hydraulics with a large shaft and a small propeller at the end. You can use a cast net, set hooks or a drift gillnet. Usually they fish at night and deliver in the morning. Oh, they also have a market and ice. Two things we are having trouble getting in Alaska. We are so far ahead of these third world countries aren't we?

1 comment:

mcubed said...

I've seen outboards with long shafts like this throughout Southeast Asia.