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the 175-225 are V6 4 strokes, and currently the best engine option in that horsepower range. In the 150, its hard to beat the old style Yamaha 150 4 stroke. Its a bit heavy, but it makes close to 170 hp. The current Yamaha 150 and mercury 150 4 cylinder are pretty much on par with each other...

check the transom before you spend any time on it. Tap on the area around the outdrive with a screw driver handle, listen for dull hollow sounds. With the drive up, put your weight on teh drive and see if teh transom flexes any, pay attention to where the drive meets the hull. If that's good...

depending on your horsepower needs and weight, its hard to beat the newer Mercury's. The old style Yamaha f150 is still the standard by all others are judged, just a bit heavy. Suzuki has made major strides in combating their corrosion issues and are on par with Yamaha( hint, they both have...

My friends that run the Charleston water taxi got 18000 hours put of a pair of yamahas 4 cylinder 200s, it took some work,but during covid they couldn't get replacements. The older 150 yamahs actually held up better but they were selling them off at 10000 hours.

I was getting free scraps at the time, they were redoing a bunch of docks at Bohicket Marina, I did a little dumpster diving when i spotted some good boards thrown in the pile. I had planned to build up a flat platform off the deck and thru bolt the fairlead on top. Would have looked nice. that...

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I may have the spelling wrong, but it's hard wood used for decking that's simular to teak. I had a bunch of scraps from a decking job at on of the marinas. I was going to build a flat base for the failed out of it on the deck and stick it over the bow a couple inched. The failed is the stainless...

one thing that people don't realize is BRP at one time offered ETEC engine across the board in their company, Motorcycle, side by sides, 4 wheelers, snowmobiles, jet skis, etc... by 2010(IIRC), they were only using ETC in outboard and had gone 4 stroke in every other department. They had every...

I've got 38 years working on marine engines, there's a reason they stopped building etecs

i remember someone made one out of starboard years ago, I was going to make a base out of epe' and mount the fairlead on it, but never did. You run teh chain thru a pvc pipe and into a bucket for storage BTW, i have a maxwell freedom 5000 windlass with rode for $500

buying something with an etec is never a good idea, unless you're ready to repower

I stay away from the politics thread, I come here for the boats and fishing, there are plenty of other sites to discuss politics

This site has had its ups and downs, we are hoping it's back on the upswing and more will come along. There used to be quite a bit of activity on here. I'm usually visiting daily, plenty of others watching, just not much going on right now. As far as B Greene goes, there were plenty of reason...

Take a plastic handle screw driver and tap on the transom with the handle all around it. If it sounds hollow,you may have issues. Check.all around the engine mounting holes. You tap.around it enough,you'll figure out the change in sounds

You can buy a uv dye to add to any fluid from you're local.auto parts store,I've used food coloring before trying g to find leaks from multiple tank set ups(different color for each tank). The uv stuff leaves a pretty decent trail,even without using the uv light, once you put the light on it...

I can get it to Raleigh or Sneads Ferry if needed

Ive got a good friend of mine that build T tops and hard tops down in Charleston. He's very experienced and has been doing it for a while. He used to build Tops for Freeman Boats before they brought it inhouse. the very first thing he will tell you, is watch your weight. You don't want anymore...

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