Anyone have any experience with the new mercury Verado. Very interesting
motor, inline 6 supercharged 4 stroke outboard up to 275 hp. This is what
should be talked about here, not politics.

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:14:07 GMT, "habbi"
wrote:

Anyone have any experience with the new mercury Verado. Very interesting
motor, inline 6 supercharged 4 stroke outboard up to 275 hp. This is what
should be talked about here, not politics.

A year or so ago, I had the oppotunity through a friend who works in
the marine industry to take a ride on a Hydrasports 25 CC with twin
"mystery" engines - it had a modified Merc cowl on it, but it didn't
act like a Merc. I belive it was the Verado. The engineer wouldn't
let us take the cowl off, but he said that it was going to be
introduced "within a year" - guess what. :)

I was impressed with the engine - quiet, had a terrific acceleration
curve, quiet, smooth as silk shifting and very, very quiet. Full
throttle standing right in front of the engines and you could hold a
normal conversation. The enginer told us that a lot of the sound
baffling engineering work was done in a sound chamber.

If I didn't own almost new FICHTS, I'd buy two in a heart beat.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

It has interesting controls, an electronic shift and throttle and has built
in electro-hydraulic power steering.
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:14:07 GMT, "habbi"
wrote:

Anyone have any experience with the new mercury Verado. Very interesting
motor, inline 6 supercharged 4 stroke outboard up to 275 hp. This is what
should be talked about here, not politics.

A year or so ago, I had the oppotunity through a friend who works in
the marine industry to take a ride on a Hydrasports 25 CC with twin
"mystery" engines - it had a modified Merc cowl on it, but it didn't
act like a Merc. I belive it was the Verado. The engineer wouldn't
let us take the cowl off, but he said that it was going to be
introduced "within a year" - guess what. :)

I was impressed with the engine - quiet, had a terrific acceleration
curve, quiet, smooth as silk shifting and very, very quiet. Full
throttle standing right in front of the engines and you could hold a
normal conversation. The enginer told us that a lot of the sound
baffling engineering work was done in a sound chamber.

If I didn't own almost new FICHTS, I'd buy two in a heart beat.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
-----------
"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653