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02-28-2015, 12:15 PM
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Gillie - They look like a nice choice . . . lots of the same design features of the 150. I'd go for it if you are gonna keep the Seafari for a while.
Terry - It's funny (maybe not rational) . . . but I feel the same way about Yamaha and their use of gotcha metal parts i.e. "planned obsolescence". One rotten shift shaft ruined me on a 1989 motor. I'm sure folks with Yamaha 225/250 gut rot and speedy sleeve cranks or yamaha 350 Frisbee flywheels feel the same way. Do you have any pics of the wellcraft with twins?  Only time will tell if the newer Merc 4 strokes are built to last. One thing for sure it that they are not the same "dockbuster" design from the late 50's. 
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03-01-2015, 09:36 PM
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[QUOTE=Bigshrimpin;234629]
Terry - It's funny (maybe not rational) . . . but I feel the same way about Yamaha and their use of gotcha metal parts i.e. "planned obsolescence". One rotten shift shaft ruined me on a 1989 motor. I'm sure folks with Yamaha 225/250 gut rot and speedy sleeve cranks or yamaha 350 Frisbee flywheels feel the same way. Do you have any pics of the wellcraft with twins? Bigshrimpin - In the center, that is a picture of my V-17 Wellcraft Steplift (or maybe the V-20) Actually they were Alim hulls from Miami that WellCraft bought. The Step Lift 17 set the Miami to New York record that stood for many years. I had the exact same power with twin 50 HP Evinrudes. They were a C. Raymond Hunt design (Whaler, Bertram, Grady White) and would cut through the chop, but were wet. WellCraft used 1x12" pine stringers and wrapped the glass up 3 or may 4" on the sides. They put a 3/4" Plywood floor in it so you thought everything was solid when you stood in it. With the stringers broken loose the hull woild exhale and pop the inspection plates out of the floor! I opened a 3' long crack in mine when I was out of site of land. Slid it up on the boat ramp at Gulfport, Fla. Took everthing apart and put new fully enclapsulated stringers in it. The V-20's were better. Well-crack built the V-20 for 29 years before they ceased production on it. There are still a lot of them around here in Florida. Good ride but very wet with all that bow "flair". You are right though, both Barry Sorento and I have had "troubled" childhoods. Of course the difference is I ain't in charge of much other than me and a few others. Black Logic - I can't follow it!
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03-01-2015, 10:30 PM
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 Ha! I know the boat well. I started that v20 site in 2003 and passed the torch in 2007.
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03-01-2015, 11:38 PM
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Tower of Power replacement
Circling back on Gillie's original post "What about the new 4 storke 115 Merc's?"
I'm sure they are good engines, only time will tell if they are "great" engines like the 2.4 L chrome bore Black Max's or the 115 Tower of Powers. I suppose there are only two "Tower of Powers" left in California - Gillie's 115 "Tower of Power" and Oakland Emilo Castillo's Tower of Power - "I still be digg'in on James Brown"
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