Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on November 25, 2006 at 18:40:52 from 81.144.214.226 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Stuart Turner (tenuous connection to Beckfoot launch) posted by Laurence Monkhouse on November 25, 2006 at 16:58:52:
Indeed, the Stuart Turner Instruction Book! Never go to sea with a Stuart without a plug spanner and a supply of spare plugs (in my father's boat, much borrowed by the younger me, these sat, ready to hand, in carved niches inside the engine box!)
I hated that engine; the tickle carburetter, the iffy magneto, the way in which the petrol line led within an inch of the (very hot) dry exhaust...in the end I took it out and the boat behaved far better. The engine had its revenge, though; when we sold the boat, we put it back and it managed work a union loose on the fuel pipe and dumped a gallon or two of petrol into the bilge..on a hot summer's day.
I don't think that the S-T was in production in time for SD, though; I think it is an early 30's engine.