Re: Is the Mercury 25 HP Four Stroke a Good Motor?
My Dad and I used a Merc 60 4 stroke for a week last summer while salt water fishing inshore waters for salmon near Tofino. We would run that motor bucktailing (trolling) at idle for hours and hours each day, smooth as silk, quitet as could be, no problem. We'd hook a fish, shut it off, land the fish, then power up to run back to the hot spot without so much as a hiccup, a glitch or a hesitation.
My 1987 70 2 stroke would probably start running rough after half an hour, then blow a huge cloud of blue when I hit the throttle again.
The only negative I found was probably just the difference between a 4 stroke and a 2 stroke. The power takes a while to get build up. Where a 2 stroke has an incredible hole shot, the 4 stroke felt a bit lazy out of the gate.
With that said, I liked it so much that I persuaded my brother in law to buy a merc 90 4 stroke when he repowered this fall! He was planning on a Yammie.
Me? I'd get one in a second if only I could justify it somehow (bought a 4x4 last winter).
Grant in Vancouver