[goodpen]

I am not interested in high horsepower as I am in not making my motors work too hard. What I mean is, I want to get the most speed at the lowest rpm I can without totally overpowering the boat. With fuel prices the way they are, every mpg improvement we can make, the better.

Some, outbaord computers are like car computers, they don't kick in until the motor is up to temperature. My Honda 130 is like that, if you can get power to the essential components (i.e. high pressure fuel pump, injectors and spark the motor will run with a blown computer and main relay. Luckily when I discovered this I wasn't in the middle of nowhere but at my dock. But months later when I was in the Everglades NP Wilderness Waterway and the motor cut out and would not start because the HP fuel pump wasn't coming on. It was good to know how to jumper power to the HP pump to get the moter to run. Eventually I discovered the motor had a bad Engine Harness. This motor has an interesting history as to what may have contributed to the bad harness that I will have to tell someday.

Fellow-ship: Did you have a different idea initially on how to alter the splashwell wall. One of the pictures of your boat in the Gallery section show where the wall is cut down about 2/3s. Was that an origianl plan that was changed to the current setup? How is it moving around the cockpit with the current design? Does the short wall cause much of a trip hazard? It looks like you raised the transom height as well?