sherwindu wrote in
:

This year I installed a Garelick lifter for my Yamaha 9.9 high thrust
4 stroke. It is a
somewhat heavy (100 lb.) engine, and thus the necessity for an
assisted lifter.


Geez, you'd think it was a diesel!

Love the "High Thrust". I'll bet it's as high as any 9.9hp
outboard...putting out 9.9hp like it does...or is supposed to....(c;

Those marketing guys invent some great stuff, don't they?

I have a Yam 3, 2 stroker. You can carry it with one hand, even if the
gas tank on top of it is full of premix 2-stroke gas! Funny thing is, I
can't find the cooling water ****er on it. A little water comes out the
pressure relief hole in the exhaust and it doesn't overheat so it must be
fine. I'd still like to see water ****ing out of it, but it never has.
Little thing planes a 9.6' Watertender dingy if I set in the middle seat
(255 #) and leave my 2 gallon jerry can in the bow.

One of the dock neighbors of Lionheart had the boat sitting in just awful
conditions, flooded with rainwater, its bottom covered with beasts
between his sailboat and the dock. I asked him if he'd like me to pump
it out, before it sank which I found out is impossible full of water,
with my rechargeable bilge pump. "You want it? It's yours. I'll bring
the title from Atlanta next time I come down", he says. Never in my life
have I ever turned down a free boat that was still afloat. Waste Marine
sells them for $500. Another yachtie friend wanted me to come put up a
motion sensor light over his garage doors. While I was on the ladder, I
told him of my good fortune getting the free boat. When I was about to
leave, he comes out with this hardly-used Yamaha 3 and says, "Here.
It'll need a motor. My back can't stand riding in a dingy and we only
used it twice. It's been taking up garage space ever since."

The most I got in it was the $35 to re-register it and renew the license.
My story of a "free boat" fell on deaf ears at the tax and license
offices....(c; The county wants $13/year. They think its a Hatteras.

My neighbors' kids think it's a Redneck Spa. They fill it with water
sitting on the lawn and have more fun in it than any adult could have....

Larry
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My calendar must be wrong....
In all the stores, it's ALREADY Christmas!