On Tue, 10 May 2005 23:57:22 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2005 23:34:33 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:



You'd be one hell of a lot better off with E-Tecs.


Grady-White has crawled in bed with Yamaha and I'm not sure you'd be
able to get a Grady from an authorized dealer with anything but
Yamahas......

In this part of the country, Evinrudes are about as scarce as hen's
teeth....

Tell me about it - people look at my engines like they are freakin'
aliens or something. I had this battle with the Contender. I finally
broke it down for them - they want to sell a boat, I don't like thief
engine choice. So either sell me the boat with the full warranty and
I'll install the engines of my choice, or I won't buy the boat. They
chose wisely.

It's unfortunate that Yamaha is doing this - one of these days, the
parts issue is going to explode in their face and lots of Yamaha
owners are going to be screaming.

Later,

Tom