Karen,

I can be gone for a year or more from this N/G and come back and you are
still talking about the same issues.

IMHO, you must have a personal problem with this company or any company for
that matter that is trying to do the responsible thing for the environment
by trying to reduce the amount of emissions that outboard motors emit.

Hey, next we might even be hearing that diesel motors put out less
particulate emissions than gasoline motors.

Do you have any solutions for the problems they have with these engines or
do you just want to "keep the pot stirred".

Fredo thinking to self: "When I buy my retirement boat I will make sure it's
a S/V with an auxiliary power plant".
Then the problem becomes can I sail it by myself or will I just be stuck in
the harbor hunched over a keyboard every day.

"K. Smith" wrote in message
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:54:22 +1100, "K. Smith" wrote:


Yes the endless "software" upgrades have begun it's exactly like the
Ficht debacle. Anyway don't say you haven't been warned this is aboating
NG & this is motors the NG users pay hugely for so ..............


# 7/24/05 8:08:00 PM Submitted by Bulletbuoy (69.14.99.177) from
MICHIGAN says Lol must be bad more like it
As of Friday at the Everstart they had on the Detroit River. The e-tech
had 3 blown power heads, one boat's motor caught on fire and blew the
cowling 30 feet in the error. Forcing the gentlemen aboard to abandon
ship. LOL E tech went over like a fat kid in dodgeball on erie.


It was Merc Verados. Nice try Karen.

Better than nice Tom, it's bloody beautiful!!!:-) the post is clear in
what it says, 3 (count 'em three!!) E-Tecs blow at the Everstart (& it
seems that was "as of Friday"), what are you saying now, the rest of the
boating community are just making this up??? I mean do you go to OMC
dealer classes to be able to post this BS??? Even as OMC went into
bankruptcy the dealers were still trying that line to make one last sale
to the gullible, give it up:-)

I'd guess if it wasn't so there would be at least
one other person from that tournament saying it wasn't so??

So it's me just making sure people are kept up to date with how the
latest Ficht experiment is coming along:-) Yes yes we all know they keep
reducing the prices & finding out what the real price is very difficult,
but hey that's what they did trying to flog the fichts, gave the dealers a
30% markup in rebates etc, so I suppose that might explain why the dealers
will say & do most anything to hook another sucker:-)

Given the detonation vibration/abuse fuel leaks are back (remember the
coast guard ordered a ficht safety recall over them last time??) might I
seriously suggest you wear head protection when you use yours, after all
wouldn't want to see you knocked silly by a blown away cowling:-)

Fear not Tom, I'll do my best to keep you up to date on developments as
the latest consumer funded lean burn at power experiment goes off. Why
have Bomb even gotten away from them????

K