On Mar 27, 4:43 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:28:00 -0400, Wayne.B

wrote:
Ouboards and I/Os are different.

Yes - yes they are.

Outboards are far superior to inboards. :)

I have to be totally honest - the last time I took a twin engined boat
out for a ride (when I was looking last Fall), I could never get the
whole grear shift/throttle thing straight.

I think you are right - it's really what you are used to. With the
Contenders, they were integrated on one housing. And I never really
did much manuevering with the engines other than using one or the
other in reverse with the opposite engine in neutral depending on
where I wanted or needed to put the boat.

My lobster boat was a single screw, and had separate levers- in that
situation it was necessary as you would always be nudging up the idle
to give the hydraulic hauler (which ran off of a shaft off the front
of the engine) a little extra juice. I don't think I'll be hauling
any lobster pots in my cabin cruiser, though...

Any particular brand that you are partial to? I had Morse controls on
the lobster boat and they were pretty bomb proof. Pretty expensive
too, though.

Thanks for all the advice, I appreciate it!

Michael