How about a Turbine powered outboard

[UltraLucky]

Mercury marine Oddities

Oddities & Rarities

Mercury Racing has been involved with several unique projects over the years. I thought you would find the products that evolved from those projects interesting to say the least. Turbine Power The experimental Mercury turbine outboard was built in alliance with Marine Turbine Technology

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or 2 speed

 

[OLDRAAT]

Great find, thanks.
Love to have that turbine OB.

 

[mjc]

I just finished reading "Iron Fist" the Carl Keikhaefer biography. It was a good read.

 

[lbhsbz]

There was one of those hanging on the back of a 24' ish something a few years back for sale....don't know what ever happened to it. Neat idea.

 

[monkeyswrench]

I don't know if MTT is tied in with the setup I read about. The guys that made the Y2K turbine motorcycles were working on an outboard setup 10-15 years ago. Seems like it would be fun, I'd run it!

 

[stoker2001]

Mercury marine Oddities

Oddities & Rarities

Mercury Racing has been involved with several unique projects over the years. I thought you would find the products that evolved from those projects interesting to say the least. Turbine Power The experimental Mercury turbine outboard was built in alliance with Marine Turbine Technology

www.mercuryracing.com

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or 2 speed

too bad the 2speed never got put into production!I remember the testing well at Lake X around mid/late 90s.They used Mirage identical to mine and Boat ran 137mph on mixture of pump/Av gas ALL Motor. the X dimension was so high they engineered the cooling pickups in the skeg.ZERO crabbing or prop torque as the counterrotating props cancelled that out similar to Blackhawk drive

 

[STV_Keith]

I don't know if MTT is tied in with the setup I read about. The guys that made the Y2K turbine motorcycles were working on an outboard setup 10-15 years ago. Seems like it would be fun, I'd run it!

Yup, Ted McIntyre and MTT did both.