Classic SeaCraft Community - Outboard Longevity

Jon,

I agree. Up here in the really great white north on the Great Lakes, it's realistically only a 5 month season at best, if you're hard core. My 23' is a second boat and I typically put 50 to 60 hours on it each season. At that rate, a 3 year warantee expires at under 200 hours, which is just getting broken in. If I keep this rig for 7 years, it's only 400 hours. By 2010, Evinrude will have come out with W-TEC warp drive using banana peels and empty beer cans for fuel. Gotta have one of those.

What's interesting is I have a 1973 Evinrude 25 HP on a little Whaler with God know how many hours on it and I'd take it around the world it it had enough a big enough fuel tank. If 30 year old 2 strokes are still hanging around with good maintainence, we may just under estimate these current motors, regardless of OEM. Isn't life grand...

Otto