Pirate Lady
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English- explain the advantage to me
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If you can afford an $800,000 hull and then drop four $77,000 outboards on the back, your fuel costs are pocket change.Thirsty!
Faster, more fuel efficient, lighter, HUUUUGE reduction in maintenance cost, easy DIY routine maintenance, 5 minute winterization instead of hours, easily adaptable to joystick, no freaking gimble bearings, u-joints or bellows (or thru-hulls, etc. if a straight inboard), shallow water capable, safer to occupants in the water when in the sandbar, simple upgrade if needed / wanted, quieter, less vibration.English- explain the advantage to me
Then they blow it by putting the handles there
I guess you could, but what would be the purpose?At that point since they are totally surrounded -- couldn't you just put a cover over them?
Which actually ran 4 - 4 - 0!Like the old Cadillac 8-6-4
Which actually ran 4 - 4 - 0!
OUCH!
They do tilt up, I saw a video, but cannot find it now. They redesigned the swim platform for 2021, so maybe they didn’t like how it tilted up or under what conditions you could tilt.I don’t see how that setup allows the O/B to tilt up. Explain for me advantage to me.
Forgot about the quiet. Brother has a Suzuki 4 stroke, cannot tell when it’s idling. Easy to talk at cruise...Faster, more fuel efficient, lighter, HUUUUGE reduction in maintenance cost, easy DIY routine maintenance, 5 minute winterization instead of hours, easily adaptable to joystick, no freaking gimble bearings, u-joints or bellows (or thru-hulls, etc. if a straight inboard), shallow water capable, safer to occupants in the water when in the sandbar, simple upgrade if needed / wanted, quieter, less vibration.
Cons - harder to carry a dinghy.
Substituting plug-in wiring for mechanical connections to the helm would sure make it easy for the skilled forklift driver now charged with adding propulsion to the big bathtub in the parking lot outside the factory.Forgot about the quiet. Brother has a Suzuki 4 stroke, cannot tell when it’s idling. Easy to talk at cruise...
I guess you could, but what would be the purpose?
In the olden days when Scott - Atwater - McCullough made boats, some of their outboard models had the engines shrouded. Back then they were so noisy it was an advantage.
Today, the big 4-strokes are unbelievably quiet and mounted all the back there on a separate transom, there is virtually no vibration transferred to the hull.
The advantage of leaving the engines open is the ability to check the oil,etc.
My buddy has an auto/marine electrical shop in a commercial port-smaller fishers mainly. He helped me with the intricacies of maintaining my first I/O. I asked him who does this difficult work for commerce; does he see much of it (we are both too old to be standing on our heads to get to plugs.) He replied they all have outboards now which are serviced at the Yamaha shop by unskilled labor who plugs them into the Yamaha computer and does whatever the computer tells them to do.Faster, more fuel efficient, lighter, HUUUUGE reduction in maintenance cost, easy DIY routine maintenance, 5 minute winterization instead of hours, easily adaptable to joystick, no freaking gimble bearings, u-joints or bellows (or thru-hulls, etc. if a straight inboard), shallow water capable, safer to occupants in the water when in the sandbar, simple upgrade if needed / wanted, quieter, less vibration.
Cons - harder to carry a dinghy.