TCG boats & hoes discussion

[frank]

Marco people have deeeeep pockets filling those homes, condos, high end cars, the 880k+boats, ridiculous amount of fu money.

 

[jason05gt]

That island is the definition of "fuck you money". Even the little shitbox ranch houses are 1-2 million and they usually have some $500k-1M fishing boat that never moves.

Go a little further north around Gordon's Pass (Naples). The houses there are even bigger.

I read in the news a few years ago that someone bought a house for $49M and it was a "tear down" lol.

The amount of money on the ocean(s) are insane.

 

[jason05gt]

Marco people have deeeeep pockets filling those homes, condos, high end cars, the 880k+boats, ridiculous amount of fu money.

My dad kicked himself. In the early 90's, we were down on vacation and my parents were looking at a Florida place. I was probably 10 years old, but I remember that the house had a pool and was on the intercoastal. That house probably would be worth $$$ today.

Instead, they bought a place in Naples at the absolute peak of the market in Florida in the 2000's and sold it right before COVID.

 

[frank]

My dad kicked himself. In the early 90's, we were down on vacation and my parents were looking at a Florida place. I was probably 10 years old, but I remember that the house had a pool and was on the intercoastal. That house probably would be worth $$$ today.

Instead, they bought a place in Naples at the absolute peak of the market in Florida in the 2000's and sold it right before COVID.

I feel the same way with not buying condos / homes here I Florida from 2013 - 2019, I have seen close to the beach condos that were selling for 85k a few years back and homes in the 150’s . Makes me sick lol

 

[b00sted]

I feel the same way with not buying condos / homes here I Florida from 2013 - 2019, I have seen close to the beach condos that were selling for 85k a few years back and homes in the 150’s . Makes me sick lol

Yeah. My father in law bought two cheaper condos down on Marco back in 2015ish and they've more than doubled in value since then.

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Hmmm.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

?

 

[Yaj Yak]

Hmmm.

its like, dune buggy, meets pooontoon, and a 30 hp 2 stroke.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Crash it into stuff at low speed, it sinks and you get stuck in the roll cage underwater trying to escape?

 

[Yaj Yak]

Crash it into stuff at low speed, it sinks and you get stuck in the roll cage underwater trying to escape?

my thoughts exactly.

 

[1quick]

Fall boating is the best boating

 

[Yaj Yak]

Fall boating is the best boating

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[Jimy Bilmo]

 

[jason05gt]

Why? The advantage on outboard is maintenance and ease of replacement. By covering them and making it tighter to work on the engines, I see little advantage over a mercury sterndrive.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Why? The advantage on outboard is maintenance and ease of replacement. By covering them and making it tighter to work on the engines, I see little advantage over a mercury sterndrive.

I agree, just thought it was strange.

 

[jason05gt]

Twin Mercury 1100's would have been a lot cooler!

 

[Pewter-Camaro]

wtf was that music with this. lol.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

wtf was that music with this. lol.

I don't have the sound on my phone lol

 

[Mr Baytchos]

wtf was that music with this. lol.

It's one of those songify things. Some kid did an interview about corn and it got turned into a song and somehow has millions of views and shares lol.

 

[1quick]

Why? The advantage on outboard is maintenance and ease of replacement. By covering them and making it tighter to work on the engines, I see little advantage over a mercury sterndrive.

The biggest advantage is weight and fuel economy

 

[jason05gt]

The biggest advantage is weight and fuel economy

You aren’t saving much (if any) weight when you are comparing apples to apples. It would take 5 400r’s to match the power of twin 1100s.

 

[1quick]

You aren’t saving much (if any) weight when you are comparing apples to apples. It would take 5 400r’s to match the power of twin 1100s.

Merc 1100 is listed at 1472lbs merc #6 drive listed at 285lbs #6 trandsom assembly 250lbs they also require a separate transmission I’m not going to look that up but let’s just say 200lbs they are built to handle 1600ftlbs so it’s beefy roughly 2100lbs per side

Merc 400 Verado is listed at 668lbs so if he put 5 on to match the power it would save 800lbs and be faster with 400’s and probably triple the fuel economy if not more those outboards are crazy fuel efficient

 

[jason05gt]

Merc 1100 is listed at 1472lbs merc #6 drive listed at 285lbs #6 trandsom assembly 250lbs they also require a separate transmission I’m not going to look that up but let’s just say 200lbs they are built to handle 1600ftlbs so it’s beefy roughly 2100lbs per side

Merc 400 Verado is listed at 668lbs so if he put 5 on to match the power it would save 800lbs and be faster with 400’s and probably triple the fuel economy if not more those outboards are crazy fuel efficient

Mercury says 1720 lbs for the 1100 total. I’m going out on a limb but 2 1100’s is going to be faster than 4 400’s.

Fuel economy is an afterthought because if you can afford a couple hundred grand in motors you’ve got the coin to be burning the gas.

 

[Yaj Yak]

Why? The advantage on outboard is maintenance and ease of replacement. By covering them and making it tighter to work on the engines, I see little advantage over a mercury sterndrive.

id bet aesthetics first off.

also these outboards are running so so so so fucking good.

maintenance sells it short as well- comparing to a merc 1100- that's just completely different animal. don't 1100s need full top ends or rebuilds every what, 200 hours? for like 30-50k per engine?