On Dec 29, 1:39*pm, Boater wrote:
Calif Bill wrote:
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Calif Bill wrote:
"Tom Francis" wrote in message
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:43:09 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:01:05 -0800, CalifBill wrote:

http://www.megoutboard.com/index.php

Wonder how they would work on a triple engine Grady?
To me, it doesn't seem that the advantages of a diesel translate well
to
an outboard engine, especially a turbo diesel. *Am I missing something?
Yes. *It's just another pitiful attempt by the four stroke crowd to
salvage something out of their ancient technology in the face of
clearly superior two stroke, direct injected technology. *Namely ETECs
which, as we all know, are the wave (get it wave?) of the future. *:)

Sad isn't it?
Those ancient 4 strokes do not blow up as often as those Evinrude Etec
forerunner clones.

My prediction is that with the economy in the dumpster, and that includes
the sale of new boats, the owner of Evinrude's tradename will soon put it
on the block.

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Probably not. *If they belly up, the name will have very little value..

Well, the Evinrude division cannot really go belly up, can it? I mean,
it is an owned subsidiary of another corporation. I don't believe it
publishes its own balance sheet. But it can become unprofitable to the
point its owners liquidate it.

It's kind of a sad story. Evinrude and Johnson were *the* motors to own,
at least on the East Coast for salt water use until about the mid-1960s.
Then Mercury began to clobber them in overall sales, and then it was
Yamaha's turn, especially in the Chesapeake Bay area and, according to
my Milford buddy, in that part of Connecticut, too. When I lived in
Florida, Merc was the big name, but Yamaha was biting at its heels.

In the mid-Bay area, there are very few newer Evinrudes.- Hide quoted text -

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Bull****. I'll bet good money that the number of Evinrudes in the
Chesapeake Bay area is representative of their market share elsewhere
in the U.S. Want to take THAT bet, or will you back out of it like
usual?