Re: Enough pitch?

[PM T2]

"using an OMC" and "going fast" in the same sentence… u funny…….

all kidding aside, I also prefer the Mercs, for the simple reason that I find a better power-to-weight ratio always works in my favour.

My 22.5 HP 1955 electric-start Elto weighed in around 130 pounds fully dressed. My 1957 manual-start 40 HP Mark 55 weighs 110 pounds. 18 more HP from 20 less pounds of motor. Math works. I also get better fuel mileage out of the Mercs. The Merc four-cylinder could get me 3.5 hours of WOT out of a tank of gas. Same tank of gas lasts almost an hour less running the OMC twin of comparable displacement (35.7 cu in OMC versus 40 cu in Merc)

Whose afraid of a little grief? Not I, lol.

I’d rather lug a Mark 75 on my back across the desert… or be forced to turn a cactus inside out and use it for a canoe….. than run any classic OMC on any of my boats………hehehe

Enjoy.

Best,
PM T2

He's livin' in his own private Idaho..... I hope to go out quietly in my sleep, like my grand-dad did..... and not screaming, like the passengers in his car...