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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
I'd do an IO. Unless you buy a 4 stroke outboards are loud and annoying.
Bayliner sells a very nice 18ft bowrider with a 135hp Merc 4 cylinder with an Alpha 1 drive on the back. Brand new for about $10k with a trailer. The engine is about as difficult to work on as your average 240D, and parts are dirt cheap.
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Nah. Many of the new 2-strokes have through the prop exhaust and aren't much louder than the 4 strokes. The two strokes are as efficient as the fours now, but I have a 135 Johnson 4 stroke that I have had zero problems with, so I have no desire to switch back.
For a boat the size St. Louis wants, an I/O would be too heavy and slow. A used I/O will just be inheriting someone else's problems--these boats are bought by weekenders that trash them. The interiors and seats, ect....are junk in all but the high end ones and the outdrives are a constant set of hydraulic problems.
I had a Ski Nautique (inboard) w/ a 350 in high school, but that was a different animal.