Tim
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"This may seem an oddity, but here at Richland County's Eastfork lake there were several boats sunk back in 'the day' because the muskrats loved to *chew on those big rubber gaskets on the OMC Stringer outdrives. I guess they liked to gnaw at them to keep their little teefers sharpened..."

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Funny...I remembered hearing a version of that story years ago. I thought it was the bellows that was chewed causing a sinking.
When I brought it up at the boat show when considering that Bayliner 175 BR, the salesman laughed. Claimed he had never heard that story and assured me that the new bellows on my boat would last 12-14 years. The weather was too bad last week to drive up to the Moncton Boat Show so I'll take a trip over to the dealership on PEI before May. I really want to take a good look at the 180 BR before they deliver my boat.