After 4 years cruising the Carib, have heard mostly negative reports
re small 4 stroke outboards, 15hp or less. Major problems of water
getting into engine when deaccelerating. Know of 2 cruisers who junked
their 15 hp Honda 4's for Yahama 2's. IMHO small 4's not ready for
serious cruising use. Also, very limited or non existant service and
parts out of USA. Wish it weren't so, as the 4 strokes are the future
and have the afore mentioned advantages of fuel and emmisions. As far
as brands of 2 strokes, Yahama rules in the Caribbean with probably
80% of locals and cruisers using them. At some dingy docks you see
nothing but Yahama.
Bruce
sv Skyus
Venezuela

(Steven Shelikoff) wrote in message ...
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:24:13 -0400, "Dennis O'Connor"
wrote:

Two stroke anything will soon be outlawed in the USA... While the smog
produced by a single engine is negligible, the sum of hundreds of thousands
of engines running at any given instant, 24/7, is not negligible...

If you lived at a marina on the weekends, you wouldn't be saying the
exhaust produced by a single 2 stroke engine is negligible. Yuk.

Steve