wandaria

Yeah its the end of the conversation, thanks for everyone's input and naturally most of all Huey. Gotta go rob the bank to get the extra money but sacrifices must be made , haha ha

Folks I have a heavy built hydrofield 4.65 centre console (bought second hand). Boat as standard with say 120 kilo outboard, myself-100kg, 50 litires of fuel and some fishing basics will weigh roughly 850 kgs. I figure that with a few kids and gear in the boat I will regularly push up and over the thousand kilo mark. I plan to boat at least 50 hours a year and obviously a lot more up towards the hundred area if it works out. So at roughly a thousnd kilos, what would peole do with that sort of weight. Here is a price dilema. Right now I can get a brand new carby 70 tohatsu fitted for $6,700, a new etec 75 etec fitted for about 10,500. The yamaha 70 is about 10 grand fitted. The 60 etec I think is the most powerful 60 engine for getting weight up and going etc and that is about 9 grand fitted. My real issue here is do people think from their experience that 60 horses of etec are enough. Once up and going I would like to do around the 28-30mph area at wot. I am not interested in debates about whether, yamaha, etec, honda etc. is crap or otherwise, just reasonable opinions as to hole shot and torque delivery taking into consideration the type of boat and the weight being moved. thanks for the replies folks.