OUTBOARD - POWERED BOAT
The last service on my 362hp Mercedes Benz SL400 (not a marque noted for parsimonious running costs) came to £537.72. That included loaning me another Mercedes car and cleaning the vehicle inside and out. The last service on my 260hp boat engine and drive cost £1,711.30, and I didn’t get another boat to use or the valet. ‘Ah, but it’s a boat, see’, is an excuse that might hold more water if it weren’t for the fact that a full service on a 300hp Mercury Verado outboard engine costs £360. Add in better packaging, the ability to tilt the entire unit clear of the water and no diesel bug fears and the surge in sales of outboard powered boats is no mystery.
They’re fast too – properly fast.
BOAT Axopar 37
DATE 2018 LYING Essex
CONTACT Boats.co.uk; www.boats.co.uk
BOAT Botnia Targa 25.1
DATE 2019 LYING Poole
CONTACT Wessex Marine www.wessexmarine.co.uk
BOAT Galeon Galia 700 Sundeck
DATE 2019 LYING Greenock
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