Looking for advice

[captainmike]

2005 is just now getting broken in, for a Yamaha at least. I had a 1986 Yamaha on one of my V's and when I sold that boat and bought another one it had a '99 Johnson. That '86 Yamaha ran circles around the '99 Johnson. Had not one problem w/ the Yami and from day 1 that damn Johnson was unreliable as hell. So keep that '05 Yami until it dies. Good chance it'll outlive all of us here the way those things run. I've got a 2001 that runs as soundly as it did on its first run. I have no clue if I'm running the right prop though, so you're not alone there.