First, I have not been able to start my 2QM20 by hand yet. My friend, who has one, can. He says that the trick is for one person to grind as fast as he can and for a second person to flip the decomp lever on one cylinder without telling the grinder when. The grinder still keeps grinding for all that he's worth.
Ellen Macarthur used a line to the end of the boom and a series of pulleys to pull start her diesel.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar IV, iii, 217
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