Boat engine
The boat engine is the propulsion engine of a boat . On sailing boats , an additional motor can serve as an auxiliary motor for port maneuvers and to bridge slacks .
Boats can be equipped with one or more outboard motors or with inboard motors. In internal engines which is torque either directly via a straight propeller shaft (rigid shaft), a propeller shaft with deflection (Y-drive) or an outboard underwater part (Z drive) to the propeller transmitted. Gasoline or diesel fuel are used as fuels . Gas engines and electric motors are also occasionally used.
Major manufacturers of boat engines are:
- Evinrude
- Honda Marine
- Johnson
- Nissan Marine
- Mercury Marine
- Scania
- Volvo Penta
- VW Marine
- Suzuki Marine
- Tohatsu
- Yamaha Marine
- Yanmar Marine
- Aquamot (electric boat drives)
- Parsun
- Torqeedo
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Wiktionary: Boat engine - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
