I just got back from the boat show in Boston, MA.
My best guess:
40 of 50 outboard powered boats had Yamahas on them.
6 of 50 had Johnson
3 of 50 had Suzuki
1 of 50 had Mercury.

What is happening?

My best guess:
40 of 50 outboard powered boats had Yamahas on them.
6 of 50 had Johnson
3 of 50 had Suzuki
1 of 50 had Mercury.

What is happening?

Same thing Toyota is doing to Ford, GM and Chrysler.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:47:42 -0500, "Jim and Becky"
wrote:

I just got back from the boat show in Boston, MA.
My best guess:
40 of 50 outboard powered boats had Yamahas on them.
6 of 50 had Johnson
3 of 50 had Suzuki
1 of 50 had Mercury.

What is happening?

Interesting. The boat show I attended in late January in Hartford and
the Worcester CEntrum Sportsman show all were Mercs and Bombardier's
Johnson and Evinrude. One Yamaha dealer.

At the Norwalk show last fall, it was pretty much all Merc with
Yamaha/Honda third behind Bombardier

Different dealers I guess.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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Basic Fishing Program:

10 - Fish
20 - Eat
30 - Sleep
40 - Goto 10

Maybe this proves Brunswick's allegation that Yamaha is now "dumping" its
engines (selling below cost) in the states to eliminate the competition. (I say
this with tongue in cheek!)

Maybe this big price reduction will be passed on to the consumer to offset
higher gasoline prices predicted to be $2.50 - $3.00 a gallon just as boating
season begins in the northeast.

However, Genmar and Grady-White claim that the Yamahas are still more expensive
than Mercs, Johnsons, and Suzuki.

"Listen to the live broadcast of 'Nautical Talk Radio' with Captain Lou every
Sunday afternoon from 4 - 5 (Eastern Standard Time) on the web at
www.959watd.com or if you are in Boston or Cape Cod set your radio dial to
95.9FM.

What happened to the Hondas'??

Jim and Becky wrote in message
...
I just got back from the boat show in Boston, MA.
My best guess:
40 of 50 outboard powered boats had Yamahas on them.
6 of 50 had Johnson
3 of 50 had Suzuki
1 of 50 had Mercury.

What is happening?

OK I'd have to tweak the numbers a little. Maybe Honda was 4 of 50, although
I didn't see any 225 hp ones.


"Don White" wrote in message
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What happened to the Hondas'??

Jim and Becky wrote in message
...
I just got back from the boat show in Boston, MA.
My best guess:
40 of 50 outboard powered boats had Yamahas on them.
6 of 50 had Johnson
3 of 50 had Suzuki
1 of 50 had Mercury.

What is happening?

"Jim and Becky" wrote in message
...
I just got back from the boat show in Boston, MA.
My best guess:
40 of 50 outboard powered boats had Yamahas on them.
6 of 50 had Johnson
3 of 50 had Suzuki
1 of 50 had Mercury.

What is happening?


Dealers get money from Yamaha for having Yamaha motors on boats at
boatshow? You know, co-op advertising type dollars.
That would be my guess. Or the boat brands owned by Yamaha were the big
exhibitors. That is my other guess.

del cecchi

I have been in the boating biz for 25 years, and gotta admit, yamaha is the
best we have had.

sterling

Florida Keyz wrote in message
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I have been in the boating biz for 25 years, and gotta admit, yamaha is
the
best we have had.

sterling

Does that include the 4 strokes?

Definatly the 4 strokes!

Got a 50 hp 4 stroke with about 2500 hours on it, running pretty much full
throttle 50% of the trips, usually with a load of 6 to 7 persons on board. Been
great! Exelent in fact, never went in the shop once in all that running.