Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:29:47 -0400, HK wrote:

It's impossible for me to give an up close and personal opinion on any
of the etecs because I have never seen or heard one on a boat. We seem
to have two kinds of outboards on the fishing boats around here...newer
four strokers from Yamaha, Honda, or Suzuki, or old technology two
strokers from Mercury and Yamaha and occasionally Evinrude and Johnson.

I get to ride in a lot of them with friends and when doing on-water
training - which, admittedly I don't do much of any more, so I've seen
a lot of 'em.

The one that surprised me was the Verado - that is quite the engine.


Haven't seen a Verado on the water, either. As I said, most of the boats
around here are running Yamahas, Hondas or Suzukis, and most of those
are four strokes.

My Honda four cycle lawnmower ****ed me off this morning. Apparently the
fuel system coughed up some crud, which I suspect is clogging the carb
jet. RPMs rise and fall all on their own. Grrrrrrr. Fortunately, these
little gas engines are like the ones I remember when I used to work on
little gas engines.