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	Name:	MotorMan -
	Subject:	I/O vs outboard
	Date:	5/9/2007 8:09:25 PM

Common in salt water, you can get an i/o with a heat exchanger. The anti-freeze stays in the block and the water drains out when it is raised out of the water.

A Volvo i/o can be had in dou-prop. I have a Hurricane (for sale $21,900) and it tracks like it had a keel. It can do the ONE thing than no pontoon can that can save your life. You can run it at 12 to 16 mph and the bow stays up to ride over waves up to five feet. hign. It has a flat deck like a pontoon boat but a hulled bottom. Its at Harbor Pointe Marina. 825-0600

I got cought in a small craft blow on Sarasota Bay in an Apache Seamaster pontoon like deck boat and the thing almost drowned us. Avoid these like the plague. I threw it into a house sale deal for one dollar. I did not want to sell it to someone. Its something to see a foot of sea water on the deck with five foot seas..

The 225 hp Yamaha 2.7 Liter 2 stroke outboards are picky about their 12 gold spark plugs. If you get an outboard, get a 4 stroke and stay one step below the max for the displacement as they all are picky at max hp per cu inch. Meaning if the v-6s come 150, 175, 200, and 225, get the 200 hp. Same if v-4 at 85, 115, 140, get the 115.

Year round water means year round growth on bottom. Expect to give it a good bottom cleaning in spring.

OB is cheapest. i/o is quietest. i/o is heavy to give a more solid ride.
write steve@artworkbyandy.com for more info or ask more questions.