{"id":598,"date":"2013-11-12T19:35:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2013-11-12T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T01:35:13","slug":"hood-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/hood-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Hood Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always liked the idea of a engine cowling that opens like a race car hood for easy access to the engine bay. Pulling off these engine cowlings can be a bit tricky (especially when the boat is in the water) and then one needs to find a place to set them once they come off that won&#8217;t be kicked over, stepped on, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some pics Mr. Phil Kunz emailed to me after I was grumbling to him how tricky it would be to set up my hydro up to do just that:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/hood-open\/hydro_hood_open_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_1.jpg\" alt=\"hydro_hood_open_1\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/hood-open\/hydro_hood_open_4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_4.jpg\" alt=\"hydro_hood_open_4\" width=\"720\" height=\"945\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_4.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_4-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/hood-open\/hydro_hood_open_mixmstr-engine3-53\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-601\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_Mixmstr-engine3-53.jpg\" alt=\"hydro_hood_open_Mixmstr engine3-53\" width=\"855\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_Mixmstr-engine3-53.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_Mixmstr-engine3-53-380x300.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/hood-open\/hydro_hood_open_velda\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_velda.jpg\" alt=\"hydro_hood_open_velda\" width=\"511\" height=\"334\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_velda.jpg 511w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hydro_hood_open_velda-458x300.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always liked the idea of a engine cowling that opens like a race car hood for easy access to the engine bay. Pulling off these engine cowlings can be a bit tricky (especially when the boat is in the water) and then one needs to find a place to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}