triple inboard vs quad and more outboard engine boats popularity !
#12
Registered
#13
Registered
How is this for sound? New Mercury 300R 4.6L V8. Wait until the SC version comes out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMIhcyh6VkI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMIhcyh6VkI
Maybe they should do this, that would sound good.
LOL
#14
Platinum Member
Platinum Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: St-Hyacinthe, quebec, canada
Posts: 7,703
Received 364 Likes
on
243 Posts
I read comments about maintnance. I just don t quite get it! My engines were rebuilt at 1250-1300 hours... all 3 still had all their original merc seals! Never opened! In my opinion, that is reliable to me! How many more hours should they last to be called reliable? Again i have had this boat for 5 years now and enjoy it very much, and yes big engine compartment, big cockpit and big cabin!
fuel burn between a triple 700 and triple 350 is less and i hope so! Twice total hp must burn roughly twice the fuel right?
anyways, i enjoy reading the different opinions on that subject!
I could also start a tread about what really are the advantage of CC s vs what i have! That is another subject i see more pros with older models! I must be getting old sticking with my old ideas!
fuel burn between a triple 700 and triple 350 is less and i hope so! Twice total hp must burn roughly twice the fuel right?
anyways, i enjoy reading the different opinions on that subject!
I could also start a tread about what really are the advantage of CC s vs what i have! That is another subject i see more pros with older models! I must be getting old sticking with my old ideas!
#16
Registered
iTrader: (1)
How is this for sound? New Mercury 300R 4.6L V8. Wait until the SC version comes out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMIhcyh6VkI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMIhcyh6VkI
#17
Registered
I was just reading on Stu first run of 2019, and looking at the pictures, my eyes stopped on 2 quad outboard powered boat, and thought about my triple 500's boat...
the popularity of similar boats to my sonic 45 went down with the years, we hear about cost of maintnance, even more about cost of insurance, some saying they can not get insurance to cover a triple engine boat, or too expensive to insure, so on and so forth...
What the hell happened to all those cost when looking at many quad engines boat now, even 5 engines sometimes ! you can still tell me outboard engines are less thursty than inboard engines, but I doubt a quad boat is a lot less thursty than my triple. I doubt insurance company don't make any differences between a twin to a quad engine boats...
an oil change is an oil change, so wether it'd be 3 or 4 outboards, oil and filter still cost the same, and probably drive oil too!
maybe my triple inboard boat will come back to be a nice set-up in the market! Hey, it's only a 3 engines boat !
the popularity of similar boats to my sonic 45 went down with the years, we hear about cost of maintnance, even more about cost of insurance, some saying they can not get insurance to cover a triple engine boat, or too expensive to insure, so on and so forth...
What the hell happened to all those cost when looking at many quad engines boat now, even 5 engines sometimes ! you can still tell me outboard engines are less thursty than inboard engines, but I doubt a quad boat is a lot less thursty than my triple. I doubt insurance company don't make any differences between a twin to a quad engine boats...
an oil change is an oil change, so wether it'd be 3 or 4 outboards, oil and filter still cost the same, and probably drive oil too!
maybe my triple inboard boat will come back to be a nice set-up in the market! Hey, it's only a 3 engines boat !
Twin engine hardcore fish boats from good brands will probably fare the best resale wise. 2nd and 3rd owners will be weary of the operating costs of 3 and 4 engine boats.
#18
Registered