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habbi March 22nd 04 09:14 PM

mercury verado
 
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.



Short Wave Sportfishing March 22nd 04 10:19 PM

mercury verado
 
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

habbi March 22nd 04 11:58 PM

mercury verado
 
It has interesting controls, an electronic shift and throttle and has built
in electro-hydraulic power steering.
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
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





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