
Originally Posted by
PawPaw "gene"
When I was a kid many many moons ago, my Dad had a neat setup. He had a regular pirogue with pointed stem and stern. He also had a reel type mower with a 2 hp green Clinton engine on it. In summers he cut grass with it and in winter he removed it from the mower and put it in the pirogue an went duck hunting. There was a short shaft that came out of the stern of the pirogue right above the bottom. He coupled it to the motor with a piece of heavy hose and some hose clamps. Once he reached his destination he would turn around and sit it the bow end thus raising the prop out of the water to make it easier to paddle. I remember the day he got rid of the engine. It had set idle on a shelf in the shed for years and one day he picked it up and carried it out to the roadside for pickup.
"gene"