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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/10/17 3:53 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/10/17 2:07 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/10/17 11:00 AM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/9/17 8:35 PM, Alex wrote:
True North wrote:
On Sunday, 8 October 2017 12:50:06 UTC-3, John H wrote:
On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 23:10:23 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 21:32:01 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

As far as can be told here, your "expertise" in boating is
limited to
buying non-collectible firearms from a Ruger auction site.
I'm not
a fan
of I/O's for several reasons, but I've seen - literally -
thousands of
boats of all sizes out on the ocean powered by I/O's.
The only I/Os we see here are big go fast boats with 7+
liter V-8s in
them or snow birds who have not figured out they have the
wrong boat
yet. Even now, the go fast crowd is migrating to trip or quad
outboards. I see a Yellowfin 36 out at the beach now and
then running
trip 7 Marines.

I/Os may be fine as a northern trailer boat but they suck in
tropical
salt water, especially if they are raw water cooled. The
last time I
did a survey, we had 78 boats in my little 120 resident
neighborhood.
None are I/Os.
Half are Yamaha, a quarter Mercury and the remaining quarter
are
Zekes, 2 smoke OMCs, One Etec and one Honda. I don't
remember the last
time I saw an I.O on the river but I am sure it had out of
state
numbers on it.
I understand the I/O is pretty popular on the Chesapeake but
that may
just be because it is not really salt water and that the are
cheap. It
may make sense for a person looking at a 3-4 month season.
My experience with the I/O in the Chesapeake taught me to
never, ever
have another I/O in salt
water. Many folks here suggested that Donnee look at an outboard
instead of an I/O, but, of course,
Donnee knew better.

Duh, JohnnyMop....the advice came after I had purchased the bow
rider. I did look at the same model with the 90hp outboard
but in
the time it took me to walk around the boat show, the last 2015
Bayliner 170BR had been sold. I got my 2015 175BR at a
reduced price
at the 2016 show because it was an unsold boat from the previous
year. If I wanted to pay 40% more I would have gone with
the 2016
BR 180 and an upgrade to the 115 hp Mercury.

How much have you lost on your other boat purchases? I learned
a long
time ago that it pays to spend a few extra bucks for quality.
You can't
add it later. Perfect examples are major appliances, gas grills,
lawnmowers, cars, *and* boats.

Wow...major appliances, gas grills, lawnmowers, cars, and boats
appreciate in value, eh, Alex? Who would have guessed.

Reading comprehension. Where did he say they increase in
value. He said
for a few bucks more, you get much better quality. In the end it
may add
value. Might last a lot longer.

D'oh is not a deer, a female deer.

Another brain fart, Harry?

Spending more is no assurance of better quality, whatever that means.

True, but quality does cost extra.

It depends on how quality is defined. It doesn't always cost more.

I didn't write that either, Krause. Again, I wrote "it pays to spend a
few extra bucks _for_ quality", not in anticipation of better quality as
you refuse to understand. You know damn well Don has made some poor
decisions in his boat buying escapades and have said nothing. You
wouldn't want to lose your little puppy over that, would you?