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I don’t know how new you are interested in, but I would also consider the Mercury loop charged 25’s that were build from the early 80’s on. These were for the most part very good motors and were real performers. Tom Brockmeyer is an expert with these, and you can get some information from him. We have a 89 version of that motor, and it is fast and it is very quiet. I first experienced these motors up on Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan. The first year we were there, they had 30 hp. Yamaha 3 cylinder motors on Lund S-18’s. These had 2 guests, the guide and a ton of gear. The Yamaha used about 12 gallons of gas a day, and were not as smooth as you would expect a 3 cylinder to be. The next year they switched to the Mercury 25’s. This is a tough service for motors, and the Mercury’s ran faster than the Yamaha, and used half of the fuel. These had several different piston and cylinder wall coatings over their lifetime, so ask Tom what is the one to own, but ours has many miles in Canada on it. It significantly outruns my 1969 Mercury 200’s which are some of the fastest 200’s built.
Steve