Evinrude e-tech

Last month ESPN did a redfish tournament here in Beaufort and I ran one of three camera boats for the first day. It was a Mako 21 with a 200 e-tech and I have to say that I am VERY impressed. Quiet, light for its size, no expensive dealer required maintenance schedules ,very fast and good mileage. It was howling so the boats did not run out much and I only put 86 miles on it which took 30 gal to fill it up which puts it in the 4 stroke fuel economy range..I think?. My old 225 johnny would be at least 50 gal or more as my 24 is heavier and the carbed 225 is a much thirstier motor. I also came away with a different impression of tournament fishermen. These guys were polite, careful of their wakes, made sure that they did not hog the ramps and parking lots or try to push the locals out of their fishing holes like a lot of the Bass pro guys do. I was assisgned to a big chain saw manufacturers boat and I can tell ya these guys can fish and regardless of all the stickers and endorsements the trounament was won with berkleys gulp shrimp on small red or white jig heads in less than 2 feet of water....Frank