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The way we treat an engine in a boat is just crazy
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You know, people take such good care of their car and they run the car every day
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they take care of it, they keep it in a garage, and the thing lasts for years and years and years
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Meanwhile, their boat, they use it 10 times a year. It sits on the side of the house in the sun, uncovered with rain and wind and debris and all kinds of stuff
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just bashing it, and the fuel gets stuck in there, they never use it
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and then whenever the thing breaks and they got all these problems, then all of it's like, oh man, this brand, this boat, this thing is just junk
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Even though it's the lack of care and the lack of maintenance and the lack of use that turned it into that
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because it is, again, a dissimilar metal, we have run electricity through it
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put it in water, and run it at very high RPM, and it's just abused, just like batteries and other stuff in it
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I mean, you think about a boat, when it goes through the water, it's going over chop
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it's just constantly slamming against the water, and you've got all of these components that are taking that abuse
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So things are going to break, and that's just what it's going to be. It's not like a car running on the road, which doesn't get to see the same amount of abuse
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So in order to say that they're all junk and they're all trash, and to see all the comments of all the different people, I think it all comes down to experience
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because I'll use Evinrude as a scapegoat. There was a lot of people that had really good experiences with that engine
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Granted, once Evinrude sold and BRP bought them, whole different story, different models
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the reliability on some of them was very questionable, and then this last-stitch effort with the Ghost model, I mean, that is a whole other thing
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that is almost like a comedy sketch if you look at it and read the things that they
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I mean, look at the product. I mean, it's an outboard that's under the water
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You can't back in a slip because you're afraid of getting water in it
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They come with a bilge pump on it, and like, I mean, it's just, the whole thing is a problem just waiting to happen
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You know, the G2, the company went bankrupt, so put them out of business
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There's a whole discussion over there on that stuff, but I think for the whole topic of something being trashy, it really comes down to how it's taken care of
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and, you know, is it one of the problematic engines? You know, it's just kind of what it comes down to
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Railroad Fishing Adventures, my Yamaha F-150 horsepower is a 2014. It had 1,700 hours when I bought it nearly three years ago
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It's now at 4,600 hours, and compared to the rest of the hundreds around model here
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all have about 6,000 to 10,000 hours with a few different models over 15,000 hours
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With only minor problems here in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, we can all sell our fish as no commercial boats, so most boats do 50 to 100 hours a week
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but mainly all trolling speeds, or some guys catch fly fish at night
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but that is a lot of speeding and slowing down to catch the flying fish with nets
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Ninety percent of our engines are Yamaha with the odd Honda and Suzuki
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but we don't sell our engines. We use them until they die. See, there you go
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I mean, you're talking about engines that have 15,000 hours on them
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and they're using them every single day, putting 50 to 100 hours on in a week
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so it goes back to the care. If you take care of it, and you run it all the time, it's going to last a long, long time
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