On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:35:40 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:17:49 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:39:18 -0500, Boater
wrote:

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

You know, you keep saying that, but traveling down 95 a week or so
ago, I didn't see one Yamaha hanging off the ends of boats down 95.
Saw a few Verados, an Optimax and six Evinrude ETECS, but not one
Yamaha. Most of the boats had Maryland registrations, one was
Virginia - couldn't see the others as they were on the other side of
the road.

Maybe you need to get out of a marina that only caters to Parker
owners and see the brighter world around you.

A couple years ago, and maybe you've seen it, but this has
a"well-balanced" view of the etec vs 4-stroke arguments.
http://www.oceanskiffjournal.com/Sub...ral/ETEC3.aspx
I was shocked to find that you're running a cleaner engine than those
with the filthy Yammy 4-strokes.

It was an interesting time I'll tell you what. I was an early adopter
of the FICHT technology and while I never had a problem (why, I
couldn't say - I did have one failure, but it was unrelated to the
powerhead problem - it was something completely and totally unheard of
even with four strokes - I had a stator go bad which caused a cascade
failure through the entire electrical system including the EMM.
Bombardier paid for everything - can't beat that.)

Never took you for a Greenie.

I am nothing if not full of surprizes. :)