On Jan 3, 3:59*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:26:01 -0500, Happy John
wrote:

Well, gosh. I don't hear any of those sounds. In fact, I have to ask my wife if the damn Yamaha is
running when I start it. I don't usually wear the hearing aids while boating.

I don't hear the Yamaha running either. The paka thing was with the
Mercury. It was the loudest thing on the Merc.

Good. If you and Harry can't hear it either, then maybe I'm not totally deaf after all.

I was very impressed with how quiet the F70 Yamaha is. You should hear
it peeing tho. ;-)
At 4500 RPM it is just a loud hum.

The Mercury was pretty quiet too but you got a lot of lower unit gear
noise out of the "big foot". That was the loudest sound. On a 2 stroke
you don't hear it *that much but I still remembered the sound so I was
not concerned. My neighbor has a big foot 50 that sounds exactly the
same.

My mercruisers definitely talk to ya.especially the 4 cyl.

?;^ )