Verado experiences, Grady and Angler...

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I noticed that Verados were mentioned in a fishing thread. I fished a 2006 Angler 21 WA with a 150 Verado yesterdat. Nice boat and awesome power. The Verado system is really something. Running 3800 r's at 25 mph and burning 5.8 to 6 gph. While that was nice the part that impressed me, nah, blew me away, was that it trolled at 2.5 knots at get this, .3 gallons per hour. THan dang thing will fish for an hour on 2 cups of friggin coffee. As for the boat, it was nice but I'll keep my V20.

Now the other boat is a 2005 Grady 282 Sailfish that the owner ordered new and told them to keep the Yams. Merc bent over backward to get once of the very first pairs of 250's on that boat. It's nice having a great Merc dealer as a friend / neighbor. Anyhow, the twin 250's are no louder than the single 150. Awesome machine but outa my league. I have operated that boat for maybe 15 hours and it a pleasure to fish.

The said part is, the Verado 150 weighs 539 pounds dry. My good friend and neighbor knows that my next motor will likely be the Suzy 150 / 175 becasue of the weight issue. That, and I don't believe that the Verado is a motor to buy and keep for ten years. While I love them now, when a motor with that little displacement with those boost pressures goes boom, it's gonna be expensive.

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