On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:22:33 -0400, HarryKrause
wrote:

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 06:53:20 -0400, HarryKrause
wrote:

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I think you should get four of those larger jet engines and install them
on the tee-top on your new boat...just fire them off as you head out the
harbors...and make a lasting impression. You could adapt some rocket
launchers as jet engine holders. And if your main entines failed, as
Karen of Oz insists they will...well...you get the picture!


Speaking of Karen's screeds on FICHT, last week I took the Contender
out for a run and when I got back to the marina, there was a fellow
who helped my put it back in it's slip. He looked the boat over and
after looking at the E-TECs he says to me - hey, those are just
revamped FICHTS right?

Cut to the end of the conversation, I asked him if he had ever owned a
FICHT - no. Know anybody who had owned one? No. So what do you base
your opinion on? Well, everybody knows.........

Idiots.

Indeed. In the four+ seasons I ran a Merc OptiMax, I kept waiting for it
to explode but, alas, nothing happened. I simply had the engine
maintained properly, used the proper oil, and ran the motor properly.
When it came time to sell the rig, I got the price I wanted, and took no
hit because it was OptiMax powered.

Well, I can say I've seen a couple - certainly not more than one or
two, with that Optimax problem, but those were bass boats and we all
know what kind of idiots bass fishermen are. :)

I see dozens of guys down here out fishing with Ficht or OptiMax powered
boats. The ones I see stuck at the ramps are the guys with I/O's, or
outboards from the early 1980s that are just plain worn out, hard to
start and smokey when they do start running.

Don't see many FICHTs up around here with the exception of mine and a
couple of bull rakers who have them. Lots of carbed Merc's
(Sal****er) and Yamahas in their various incarnations.