23 seacraft. F300, F250, F200?

[caboman22]

I'm Restoring a 1974 Potter 23SF all composit and raised the transom to 30" and installing a 2012 yamaha F300 with a new 120 gallon fuel tank. I was looking at a Mercury 300 Verado but this was too great of a deal to pass up.

[FAS]

new F 300 would be ideal,reliability, and plenty of dealers around to buy, and service them..The etec's are coming on stronger lately, the new G-2..just need to prove the reliability of them...to me at least.... I like the older 2 stroke ox 66 yami's.plenty of pep, and proven engines.I searched hard to find a good ,used 30" 250 ox66,for my 23,Yes, more gas and oil... the new f300 was way outa my price range, 3.3 - F250's are good motors , but not massive pep for my likes.older F225 are dogs, and have their own problems.make sure it has variable cam shaft timing.NO poptimax!If you gotta go black ,go 300 verado.

[kmoose]

Regardless of what brand you go with, 250 ponies is all you would ever want for a 23 cc unless you are hauling bricks to the Bahamas. Anything bigger is just spending cash you won't use except in the channel.

I too am a little wary of Yamaha and their Nazi like maintanence mandates to keep their warranties in force. If it was my money and I wanted to go 4 stroke it would be the new gen Suzuki or take the 2 stroke route with the Etec 250. You would be trilled with either choice.