Would one of these make a jet ski quieter?
THAK YOU
SURE! I'll have to rip the back deck off my Necky to get it out though...
Kai
: THAK YOU
You know, I've never looked under the hood of my Corsica, but if you
know what engine is inside why don't you make an offer?
Actually I have no idea how small Caterpillar diesels can run, in
particular these D399 models. I'm rather out of touch with the sailing
literature, but it used to be that the long distance sailors preferred
relatively small two (or even one?) cylinder units for auxiliary power.
These are heavy for their power, but efficient, safe and simple. Maybe
this guy is looking for sailors who have gone ultra-purist and dumped
their diesels in favor of oars and sculls.
A big enough diesel would do a very good job of quieting a jet
ski - especially if it weighs more than the ski displaces :-)
Paul Jacobson "Capital letters were always the best way of dealing
with things you didn't have a good answer to."
[Douglas Adams' Electric Monk]
:> Now Paul quit picking on me (the jet skier) - I'm not the idiot
:> who's trying to buy marine engines from a bunch of paddlers!! By the
:> way, what in the world is a caterpillar marine engine? It sounds like
:> some massive commercial job to me!
of course i will get flamed, but what the heck... [a bad attempt at humor]
it's a engine mounted in a jarhead [the navy's slang for marine] that
crawls on it's little legs, before turning into a butterfly...
well, now that i reread this, it was funnier in my head...
my brain seems to have frozen with all this snow!!
mark
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