What’s everyone’s opinion on a 2015 mercury 250hp Verado? I found a Phoenix with one. 300 hrs.
2007 Basscat Pantera II. 200hp Yamaha Hpdi.
It would take me 2.5 years to burn 10 gallons of DFI oil. You must be making a lot of long, high speed, runs if you burning that much oil in a month...
Phillip "Wade" Norris
2015 Ranger Z520C
250 Merc Optimax Pro XS (S# 2B113454)
25P Fury - 4 blade all holes open
2007 Basscat Pantera II. 200hp Yamaha Hpdi.
2007 Basscat Pantera II. 200hp Yamaha Hpdi.
I'm not sure of the current cost, but I'm sure it's well north of 10k and at this moment you probably wouldn't get one for a couple months. I'm thinking it's around 14k but I'm not sure if that's labor added in or not. It was about half that for a 2 stroke power head. I'm really not trying to push you away from one but they aren't all that much cheaper to run and they are lots more expensive to fix.
Well I ended up finding a boat. It’s not 20 foot, and it’s not a four stroke. Lol. But it’s a very clean, well maintained, low hour boat that should suit my needs. And it was half of my budget. Drove 29 1/2 hours round trip over the last two days to pick it up. 2007 bass cat pantera ii. Pics to come.
2007 Basscat Pantera II. 200hp Yamaha Hpdi.
2007 Basscat Pantera II. 200hp Yamaha Hpdi.
Good deal.
Very nice! Congratulations.
Excellent choice with money left over for more toys or repair
Very nice looking Basscat! The pantera is a great boat!
I think you will like the PII. A note on the Optimax/ProXS 2 strokes to use less oil. I noticed you said you go WOT, everywhere. Every time you nail the throttle or hot foot to get to WOT, the programming adds about 50 shots of oil in anticipation of high RPM. If you have a “happy foot” as Don calls it, you are sending those shots every time you come off the throttle then jump back on it. You can waste A LOT of oil, whether it is expensive DFI oil or Pennzoil XLF.
USN Retired
2020 Basscat Caracal
2020 Mercury 225 ProXS 4s
Nice boat, congratulations!!
1993 Tracker Pan fish 16