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I kind of doubt that many of the people who own a 4-5 motor CC is doing their own maintenance, or for that matter financing much of a 700-1Mil boat.
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Originally Posted by Brad Christy
(Post 4876077)
Knot,
There are certainly those out there. But, mostly, what I’ve seen are a bunch of 30 somethings who have discovered a liking of boating and a depth to their credit that makes it all possible. Overwhelmingly, the age of the two demographics shows the older crowd likes loud inboards with real HP, and the younger crowd likes the quiet OBs in double triplicate to make up for a lack in individual HP. What I’ve noticed is that the older crowd seems to have the resources to just let somebody else shoulder the headaches of maintaining their beasts, and the younger crowd is gullible enough to believe maintaining five OBs is easier and cheaper than maintaining two IBs. All good, though. Just as with the first rule in a gunfight is to have a gun, the first rule in being a boater is HAVING a boat. We have a friend with a pontoon. And while we give him crap for owning a complete waste of mineral resources, we certainly appreciate he brought a place to hang the grill. Thanks. Brad. Also, if people with half a million, or a million, to dump on a depreciating toy are so inexperienced and naive enough to buy a boat based on what a salesman said, they deserve what they get. As Gordon Gecko said, “a fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.” My 20c worth. :) RR |
yes on flushing but no need for added penicillin to make sure you got all the "salt" out/off LOL
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Originally Posted by Brad Christy
(Post 4876077)
Knot,
There are certainly those out there. But, mostly, what I’ve seen are a bunch of 30 somethings who have discovered a liking of boating and a depth to their credit that makes it all possible. Overwhelmingly, the age of the two demographics shows the older crowd likes loud inboards with real HP, and the younger crowd likes the quiet OBs in double triplicate to make up for a lack in individual HP. What I’ve noticed is that the older crowd seems to have the resources to just let somebody else shoulder the headaches of maintaining their beasts, and the younger crowd is gullible enough to believe maintaining five OBs is easier and cheaper than maintaining two IBs. All good, though. Just as with the first rule in a gunfight is to have a gun, the first rule in being a boater is HAVING a boat. We have a friend with a pontoon. And while we give him crap for owning a complete waste of mineral resources, we certainly appreciate he brought a place to hang the grill. Thanks. Brad. There's a huge gap in the sport boat market where the interested buyers are late 20s-early 40s but builders and Mercury are ignoring them to go after a tiny demographic with large budgets. As people pass away that wealth will get divided up more and more with the demographic getting even smaller and smaller. Edit: There's a reason Yamaha is selling more boats than anyone else and I won't feel bad for any manufacturer that has their niche market dry up again. |
I've had both I/O and OB now. 700SCi/NXT in my last boat and 450Rs on this boat. Both have been solid reliable power packages provided I maintained them. The ease of maintenance with the OBs is night and day though, oil changes, drive fluid changes, any other misc. service has definitely been easier to perform on my OBs. I miss my 700s at times, they sounded amazing and had great "hit" when you pushed the sticks. If given the choice again though, I'd still pick the OBs. For my style of boating they have worked great.
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Originally Posted by precisiondetails
(Post 4876063)
Just on our small Poker Run 2 weeks ago- we had 3 OB prop shafts break. All on OB cats.
Meanwhile all M6 & M8 drives are all completely fine. While M6 and M8 drives are stout, what usually sits in front of them needs frequent rebuilds |
Check out the Borden Light PR thread Matt T just posted up.
Shout out to the NE Hi-Po gang for keeping the loud boats in play. |
Silly kids lets get this right outboards are for bass and pontoon boats..... inboards for speed boats with thru hull exaust!
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Originally Posted by techman
(Post 4876126)
Check out the Borden Light PR thread Matt T just posted up.
Shout out to the NE Hi-Po gang for keeping the loud boats in play. |
Sure saw a lot of older men running multi engine C.C.at Boyne Thunder.
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