Short and sweet, here’s a response to GB 36. Enjoy this bit of one up-manship from Les Sonnenmark, frequent contributor here. Les writes, “Maybe this should be several-upmanship. It’s a government-owned research vessel which I photographed in 2010 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. It sports seven 350 hp Yamahas for a total of 2450 hp. I’m guessing they don’t fill ‘er up at the local marina gas dock.”
Click here for a photo of a bigger tin boat with even more outboards.
Thanks much, Les.
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August 4, 2015 at 9:57 am
Les Sonnenmark
…and then there’s this one http://www.cottageronline.com/2013/04/multiple-boat-outboards/ which I’m hoping is the limit.
August 4, 2015 at 9:59 am
tugster
small boat trolling for giant bluefin??
August 4, 2015 at 4:17 pm
Erich
Some other picks!
http://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-outdoor-photos/376849-7-yamaha-350s.html#b
August 4, 2015 at 4:33 pm
tugster
Erich– There’s no name on the boat. Any idea what it’s used for and why the decision to power it this way was made?
August 4, 2015 at 4:18 pm
Daniel Meeter
Where do the seven guys sit to steer them?
August 6, 2015 at 8:30 am
Carl G. Schuster
Next time in Bonnaire, walk dockside at sunset, and you’ll se a number of multi-engined Ocean racers, loaded with refrigerators, air conditioners and the like.
August 6, 2015 at 9:10 am
Les Sonnenmark
Maybe it’s not such a new concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Lawson_(ship)
August 6, 2015 at 9:16 am
tugster
I’ve never seen a steamship with more than four funnels, but here’s one with a fourth that’s a fake: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anecdotes-from-the-archive/deception-and-camouflage-1915/
August 6, 2015 at 10:52 am
Les Sonnenmark
Here’s a five-stacker with 26 boilers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Danton
August 6, 2015 at 10:56 am
tugster
Hmmm . . . she sank in deep water: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7898890.stm
August 7, 2015 at 2:55 pm
WS
Yamaha 350 HP: 5.3 Liters, V8 ,DOHC, fuel injection:
It’s an automobile engine.