Motorboat Owner
PROJECT BOAT
PROJECT Mayland 16
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ur current project boat has taken a back seat this month as I move back to our original project, the £1000 boat. Since last seen, the boat has sat idle while we have been concentrating on the Fairline, and apart from an upgrade to her engine from the original 20hp to the rebuilt 35hp motor and some canopy work, nothing else has changed. This year though, I want to embark on an ambitious plan with our little Mayland 16. I won’t go into detail just yet, but suffice it to say that one of the things I needed to tackle was the power unit. My rebuilt 35hp starts
and runs, but I want something newer that I can rely on before planning for my adventure can begin. Late last year I started searching for a new outboard. The financial constraints are off now, so there would be no limit to what I could spend, but realistically this is still a very cheap, old boat so I put a £1,500 limit on myself. When new, in the 1970’s, the Mayland 16 was rated up to 40hp, but in those days the engines were all two-stroke, and even a 40hp motor only weighed around 60-70kg. A modern four-stroke 40hp outboard can weigh in excess of 100kg, so to say I
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March 2018