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Excellent advice. Thank you.

For a fishing boat you definitely don’t want a stern drive if it’s not offshore fishing. There’s just no arguing that you aren’t happy crawling around in a few feet of water with a stern drive. You simply can’t pull it up enough to avoid damage while you can with an outboard. An outboard if left unlocked will ride up and over if you touch bottom. Sterndrive ain’t goin nowhere . In short you just shouldn’t go in shallows with a stern drive with it running.

Sorry, watched 8 seconds and had to shut that annoying voice off!

Trim it out right before it starts to “porpoise” on you, then trim in a touch till it planes out. I find this best for speed, fuel economy and ease of steering. Good lake conditions also, doesn’t work if your plowing through chop…

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Having a twin engine is cheaper than loosing your life...

I’ve got all the basic tools to overhaul older mercruiser outdrives . They are built tough and easy to set up . They built millions of these things and most are given to me for free . Try the same for an outboard over 250 hp

Clear, accurate, step-by-step advice. Well done.

Nice, 0:33 into the video and I can clearly see my boats sterndrives 🙂

Tell this to truck drivers!

Thanks for the knowledge. Is the same principle also applies to vhf handy talky?

I used to have a Nissan 3.5hp years ago on a 10 ft. inflatable.

If you intend to water ski, wakeboard or any off the stern activity, the stern drive does offer a little more safety

Assuming twins with separate fuel cells, I’ll go with twins.

Please stop doing AI narration - It's a turn-off

Best video in youtube these days, straight to the point, no 20 minutes filling the pancakes experience! Definitely worth a sub.

Great information because when i go on plane my back of the boat lifts out of the water and my front is in the water

Very interesting :/

Thanks for making this Video, as an RF Engineer my boat's Ant is straight up, and I think I am the only one in the marina who has it set that way. lol

True ! Same goes for the antenna on your car. It may look more sporty but it makes things bad.

You lost me when you couldn’t pronounce “Verado”

Outboard is a an easy win. No real benefit to to a stern drive.

I feel like an outboard is the way to go if saltwater is part of the equation. Also later in the life of the boat you have to worry about gaskets and such. Outboards all the way!

For someone who switched from outboard To inboard can Tell that the Classic Stern Drive will be much cheaper To maintain ... And the reason IS pretty simple ... Cost of parts. Also outboard tens To need alot of spezial tools

for small pleasure boats, outboards today are leaps better than even 10 years ago. The problem with stern drives is the number of critical failure modes. We have muskrats on our lake, and they like to chew rubber. Not an issue with an outboard. With a stern-drive, there are multiple bellows that are just waiting to be chewed up. Your boat will sink. There is also the added complexity of the tilt mechanisms.

I know the difference out drive ,stern drive but what is the drive called when you have rudders and props?

Если катер позволяет повесить два двигателя 200 сил и весом 240 кг. каждый, я бы повесил один 400-500 сил весом 330 кг.

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You go offshore, you have two on the transom, simple really, you want to become bilge soup or go home.

The amount of cost and time time to keep an sterndrive operating is significantly higher than on a outboard, its also a much more complex drivetrain prone for failure.

Twins are more maneuverable, and you have a backup if 1 fails. With Twin engines you can literally pivot in place something a single engine can only do with bow thrusters. I've owned both.

I have a 1999 Sea Ray 180 BR with a 3.0 liter MerCruiser. I installed Bennet self leveling trim tabs in an attempt to decrease the low speed wander when approaching my boat lift at low speed. What I found after installation was that I lost 3 mph in top speed and really no increase in hole shot. Low speed wander was better but it was still present. I think the spring force in these tabs is too stiff and they don't retract as far as they should when the boat is on plane. I pinned the tabs up so they are parallel to the hull at all times. It seems to reduce low speed wander slightly and no longer reduces my top speed.

One thing however, when you make the conversion, for an identical speed on the same boat, you can mount an outboard motor less powerful than its inboard counterpart, as a result the consumption decreases as well as the final total weight of the boat

The funny thing is the trim tab. In my sterndrive, if I activate the starboard tab, for example, it lifts the port side. The added drag from the tab slows that side and tries to turn the boat in that direction, applying upward port yaw, the opposite that is expected. Cheers

Life long boater and mechanic, 25 year marine tech. F stern drive. Ill take outboard or preferably straight inboard.

I boat in a river what do you guys recon, twin or single?

UnA excelente explicacion del cual motor o embarcacion que desea adquirir. ! Bravo !

Suzuki 2.5 worked really well and was the right price. I could go all day on $5.

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Verdoo? It’s spelt Verado that Veer a dow

I operate a Boston Whaler 190. This is helpful.

Airboat FTW

Having had both...I love my outboard...and would never go back to a stern dive.

straight inboard all my life from 22ft to37 foot for over 50 years