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I pray that you'll never have to start that thing in a hurry

Fun fact I work in Grenaa and the factory that made this motor still exists but don’t make engines anymore. But is just a machine shop. The company’s name is Grenaa motor fabrik

The art of engineering reaches its epitome when you stop asking yourself not, "what more can I add" rather, "what more can I take away".
Simplicity is perfection. 🤙🏼

As a Dane, I grew up listening to the sound of these fantastic engines, I miss them!
What a beautiful Danish Cutter you have got yourself.

Dane, born 1959. This was THE sound of all the fishing boats that filled all the fishing harbours till way into the 1980’s. Grenå, Hundested, and Korsør engines. ❤

Sixty years ago I did my military service in Sweden on a minesweeper. A so-called auxiliary minesweeper which was actually a fishing boat like this Danish boat here with a two-cylinder spark plug engine, or two-stroke diesel engine. These engines worked with low but powerful strokes almost like a heartbeat. They radiated a strong, soft and safe atmosphere like a great being.

The fact that this motor and exhaust system produce the smoke rings we know from early black&white cartoons really made my day. I thought that was just a part of the visual language like jagged bubbles for loud noises and explosions.
It also makes sense that this is only something we end up seeing with very low RPM engines. Thanks!

I didn’t think that something as basic as starting an hot bulb engine could challenge a Netflix documentary for drama, but you managed it.

Ah, the classic sound of a Danish fishing boat. Absolutely an iconic sound.

As an old plumber, i think back to preheating my old white spirits soldering iron. Makes me think that that era had many industries with marvellous inventions that all needed a bit of love and warming up before they operated at full potential

Swede here. I think these engines are part of some kind of culture or the old guard fishermen of the baltic sea.
My granddad wasn't a fisherman, but he a one cylinder hot bulb engine in his garden. I guess he used to have it to power his machine shop in the past.
As a kid, i would sometimes sit near lake Mälaren in the summer to watch boats. And you would hear these by their distinct sound whenever they came by.
There were some antique boats running these in the early 90's in Stockholm. I guess it was mostly a summer thing.

Something primal about that engine, like it has a soul !

I was born not far from Grenaa, but 3 years after your engine was made. Kind of funny to see the manual written in Danish, German and English.

I have a CD somewhere, the name translates to something like "Thump thump along the Norwegian coast". It's basically just recordings of (mostly single cylinder) hot bulb engines from coastal fishing vessels.

Some friends of mine got to go fishing with an old coastal fishing boat, and ended up going (very gently) aground. The skipper was running the engine at low RPM just to keep it still against a very gentle tidal current, and when you're running at really slow speeds these single cylinder engines can sometimes reverse direction by themselves. So suddenly they were going with the current instead of holding against it, and ever so gently scraped onto the sandy bottom. Nothing was damaged except the skipper's ego, thankfully.

That motor is why I am here and found you in the first place. I love the sound of old hot-bulbs, especially in boats like this. They’re like me: old (-fashioned) and slow (-turning) and totally reliable. ☺️
Once I watched the original motor vid, I watched the rest of these videos and signed on as a founder. I’m not loaded. Hell, I’m a barber! But the whole project resonates with me. I was a bit sheepish when I told one of my customers, a really smart guy whose opinion I respect, about the ultimate purpose of the boat and my “investment.” He burst out and said “ I think that’s a great investment, Dave!” and my instincts were confirmed: this is a great and worthy project. So today I am joining the channel too — and all because of that motor! 👍👍
Carry on, skipper!

So strange to see a Grenaa so far away from its birth place 👍 please keep this old girl running as long as you possible can!

The 60s were an amazing time.  International passenger flights, moon travel, massive power jumps in passenger cars, etc. At the same time, some steam engines were moving freight and some farms were still using livestock to pull implements.

That is the sound of my childhood, living in a Danish harbor town. Every morning the fishing boats would go out through the fjord where i live.
Fond memories of my grandfather and me buying fresh fish directly from the boats.
Now the only remaining fishing boat is a working museum.Thank You for playing one of the nicest sounds i know.
The best was when they made smoke rings, puffing out of harbor.
Greeting from Denmark.

It's really an engine that was "figured out" you can tell they were understanding the principles for the first time AS they were building it.