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Originally Posted by NHBUOY
NB...what kind of boat project you got in mind for that motor?
ps: I MISS the "thrum" of the old motors. The Mount is "silent" now .I always won at the Iseethemtfirst cause I could hear it.
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Mystic Seaport Museum has a collection of old marine engines, some of which are much larger than the old Mount engines. Many of them are in operating order. Every year they have a marine engine weekend in which they actually run the engines out in the shipyard. They certainly are not environmentally friendly when running but it's interesting to see them. They run each engine for a few minutes every now and then during that weekend. The rest of the year they are dormant.
I would like to have seen one of the Mounts engines go to Mystic Seaport since they
were certainly historically significant. You could then still take your grandchildren to the museum and hear that old Thumping that you heard "back in the day".
Lament: A total waste of a valuable historic artifact. (No smiles here for their apparent demise.) NB