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07-01-2008 | 01:40 PM

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Scott B

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From: Slightly North of Cuba

That was the story floating around here..

07-01-2008 | 01:41 PM

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Goddam, Poodle, it must be esp!

07-01-2008 | 01:43 PM

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and contenders run yamaha's mostly? Aren't the mercs 4 stroke o/b yamaha design?

07-01-2008 | 01:45 PM

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Older Merc 4 strokes were Yammies.. The new ones are their own design AFAIK...

07-01-2008 | 01:46 PM

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Used to be. Not anymore.

07-01-2008 | 01:54 PM

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From: Blue Martini Hall of Fame

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Originally Posted by BROWNIE

Anyone who has been in the boat bidness more that 40 years has been down the shi**er at least once. Margins are not conducive to laying up large hunks of cash. In the past, we have relied on Prohibition, smuggling, etc., to bail us out. Don't know what they are going to di this time.

Classic statement Brownie. Only thing to smuggle these days is people. But, the cubans have a lock on that market. At 25K a head it's a profitable racket.

07-01-2008 | 01:55 PM

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if you can do this with an old mustange...there is possibilities, the automakers are just to busy trying to CYA to make progress...technology eventually will turn the economy around

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll...41/-1/BUSINESS