Folding boat engine
Folding boat motors are lightweight outboard motors specially designed for folding boats and kayaks .
For the first time, a folding boat engine (also side board engine , kayak engine ) was built in 1928 and used on folding boats. The most well-known manufacturers at that time were DKW , Effzet, König Motorenbau , Sachs, Tümmler, Libelle. After 1989 the building of these folding boat engines was stopped in the GDR. These two-stroke engines no longer complied with environmental regulations and were too loud in terms of noise. Weights from 10 kg to 18 kg no longer met the requirements.
In 2004 a craft business (KPM-Lahnstein) from the shipbuilding industry presented a successor to the folding boat engine (kayak engine) at boot in Düsseldorf. It is a Honda four-stroke engine with 1.2 kW / 1.64 hp, air-cooled, which is handcrafted with a special planetary gear and centrifugal clutch , as well as a drive train and universal bracket made of aluminum, weighing 7.5 kg. This motor can also be attached to fixed kayaks with a special bracket. The consumption of 0.3 liters of regular petrol per hour extends the operating range. The speeds are continuously between 4 km / h and 10 km / h (GPS measurement with fixed kayak twos).