Read his post again. He has a 1997 v8 mercruiser i/o. "A while" is well
before 1997. Merc uses a counter rotating drive instead of a counter
rotating engine in dual i/o situations. He does not have a reverse rotation
engine.

What was the brand and year of manufacture for your ski boats?

"Rod McInnis" wrote in message
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"Lawrence James" wrote in message
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Counter rotation engines have not been built for a while and certainly
would
not be in a late model bayliner single engine boat.


Define "a while".

Counter rotating engines are standard in just about every twin engine
inboard boat I have seen.

I have owned two different tournament ski boats that used counter rotating
engines.

I agree that it would be unusual in an I/O configuration, but it only
takes
a minute to check and can save a tremendous amount of headache and expense
if he happens to have one.

Rod