Tag: "propane"

Marine Green Co-Founders Bill Parlatore and Howard Brooks test an early propane-powered outboard

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 [...]

Dec 16, 2009 | 1 comment View Post
Could This Be Your Next Dinghy Gas Tank?

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 [...]

Dec 03, 2009 | 0 comments View Post