18 seacraft power

[3rdday]

The e-tec is an awesome motor! I can speak from experience.
Was fishing the Walmart FLW Redfish tour this yr. During the tuorn. in JAX the water pressure line came off the nipple on the block, ( was the boat MFG who rigged not Evinrude)we ran for 1 hr 15 min to our spot we felt the boat surging and not producing full revs, same thing on way back to weigh in, we stopped to put a splas of gas in the tank on the way out of the creek we spotted a school and shut down to try to upgrage our fish. Motor wouldn't start. I jumped on the Watts Brothers boat with our fish made it to weigh in.Later Evinrude support looked at the motor, the hose sprayed everything with seawater, the starter was fried, plugs had 1/2 inch baked on salt on them, it was pulling seawater in through the carbs the whole time!!. They changed the starter, flushed the motor ran it through a few winterization cycles ( this puts more oil into the mixture).
I was skeptical at first, the engine runs awesome not a single hiccup. we have made many long runs since then. The electronics are all potted so they did not get damaged. No I am not employed by evinrude, sponsored, nor a dealer.