Tag: Marine Green

Take the Poll — What’s the Ideal Tender Outboard?

| August 12, 2010 | 3 Comments
Take the Poll — What’s the Ideal Tender Outboard?

If you could have the perfect outboard for your dinghy or tender, what would it be?  A diesel perhaps, because you’re already carrying hundreds or thousands of gallons of that fuel and because looking for and storing gasoline is such a pain in the neck, not to mention dangerous? I’ve long thought, for example, that [...]

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Propane for the Dinghy Outboard Part 2

| December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
Propane for the Dinghy Outboard Part 2

In a recent article here on OceanLines, we described a brand new development effort by a company called Marine Green to adapt smaller outboards for propane fuel.  Since that article, I have been able to talk with the co-founder of Marine Green, none other than Bill Parlatore, the founder and current Founding Editor-at-Large of Passagemaker [...]

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Got Propane? Run Your Outboard Motor on It

| December 3, 2009 | 0 Comments
Got Propane? Run Your Outboard Motor on It

Well, soon maybe.  In my apparently Quixotic quest for a single fuel for vessel, tender and toys, I keep looking for new ideas.  Using propane as fuel for an internal combustion engine is not new, but it is for a modest outboard application.  A company I can only identify so far as Marine Green (more [...]

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