Thanks for the info on the swim steps, Bushwacker. The other thread on dive ladders was also useful. We'll see what we can come up with.
"Evil" is finally going to the Evinrude dealer this week to have the E-Tec installed! I am looking forward to posting how she performs with the new outboard.
I am glad to know that someone agrees with our choice of the E-Tec. Bushwacker, your statements about the E-Tec were indeed the selling points that caused us to choose it. Both the Seacraft and our Whaler spend an awful lot of their time just idling or moving at slow speeds. We needed a motor that was efficient doing that. The Yamaha was very unhappy about that sort of abuse and was always gunking up somewhere. We'll see if the new Merc we got for the Whaler does as well as the E-Tec with this kind of use, since they are both new and will be put in use at the same time.
This is what the welding shop on campus came up with to replace the corroded aluminum edging around the transom cut-out. They didn't have the equipment necessary to do that little radius the original had, so they just welded some rod to the flat SS to protect that edge. Not very pretty, but it should work.
