Dave wrote:

Then of course you have the greenies who are so pure they wouldn't
consider
a 2 cycle of any kind for fear of fouling their air.


If you expect to put an 11 ft boat with say 400 lbs of people and gear
up on a plane, with say a 2 ft chop, then 9.9 HP may not be enough,
but it certainly a minimum.

As far as 2 cyl is concerned, it's a dead dog, as it has been known.

California outlawed the existing technology a few years ago since it
was the major source of MTEP, a known cancer causing compound, in the
ground water.

As California goes, the rest of the nation follows, it's just a matter
of time.

There has been some effort to develop nonpolluting 2 cycle technology,
but it still has a way to go.

Lew

Lew Hodgett wrote in news:BHjai.2316$tb6.1553
@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net:

If you expect to put an 11 ft boat with say 400 lbs of people and gear
up on a plane, with say a 2 ft chop, then 9.9 HP may not be enough,
but it certainly a minimum.



Should 400 pounds of people and gear be IN an 11' boat in a 2' chop with
a heavy 4-cycle 9.9hp outboard on one end in the first place? How much
transom freeboard over 2 ft does that have?! Sitting at the dock with
just the motor on it only shows 18" of transom unless the dock lines are
too tight!

Must be awful WIDE.....(c; Those waves are awful high!

Larry
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