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Victa used to make outboards like this - literally a mower engine mounted on the back of the boat with an extended shaft. Instead of a propeller, with all its associated gearbox and elbow joint, the shaft ended in a horizontal propeller which sucked up water and spat it out the back in a jet. The jet provided the propulsion, not the propeller.

Here's one on youtube:

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