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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 2119852" data-attributes="member: 15054">I have had many boats mostly for fishing..i have built many boat engines..I will say i hate the oil injected ones.Mercury does not have faith in the oil injection either..Factory repair manual states: during breakin for a rebuilt engine run the engine for 10 hours with a 50:1 mix of gas oil and with the oil injection hooked up and full...Really!!! no faith...take one apart and notice the plastic drive gears for the pump...HATE THEM.My old 1975 bayliner closed bow mosquito is one tough fiberglass boat...close enough to the water to run trotlines.Tall enough to keep you dry in rough swells...50HP merc starts like a new car every time..knock on wood.Now it is light and easy to pull and not a gas guzzler...bigger engines suck some fuel.Transom rotted fix is cheap less than 200 bucks if you do it yourself..floor rot little more $ I did a 4'x8' section with A-B foam and that cost right at $300 doing it myself.I do like the aluminum bass trackers...excellent boats.My bayliner has never had an issue with the glass..and i dock it on the ripraps and run it up on the sandy shores ...hit plenty of logs and trees in the rivers and lakes...But it is old and light and thick..Maybe the newer stuff is thinner...I do not like tilt and trim for trash water fishing..fact i do not like the to have the outboard locked down either.If i run up on a sand bar in the river i want the engine to tilt up instead of bury it'self ,Same goes for logs and stumps in the lakes and rivers..if i run one over my engine tilts up..instead of hangin' and breaking on it.Yes i fish some nasty places..</blockquote>

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