Thread: Fishing/Dive boat options

Like the winch handle on that reel. To me that would be an exciting but very uncomfortable day

anything over 90 hp you better start saving for every trip out coz man they start sucking the juice. if you just want to take the family out for fishing diving etc no 50 mile missons then I reckon 90 hp is all u will ever need, and on a 5.3m ally boat that will push you plenty fast enough with power to spare unless you are going to do the load all the boys on with all the piss trips!

Buccaneer 540 sport. Heaps of room under the floor for 2 tanks, dive gear in the rear locker's and rod's in the rocket launcher. 115 Yamaha 2stroke , all the power I need for Skiing and wakeboarding as well. Don't have to go up in to some pokie cabin to pull the pick up just go thru the split windscreen. Perfect for my needs, so much so that I got another smaller version the 440 Sport, ideal for 2 people when I sneak away to the Bach.

for what its worth, I test deove a Mclay 590 (I think 590 - around that size anyway) it had a 90 Honda 4 on it, with 3 Adults in it, it really felt like it was struggling like fuck to get up on the plane and go, it put us off the 90 and I think 115min for a boat 590 - 6 meters

Originally Posted by Gapped axe

Buccaneer 540 sport. Heaps of room under the floor for 2 tanks, dive gear in the rear locker's and rod's in the rocket launcher. 115 Yamaha 2stroke , all the power I need for Skiing and wakeboarding as well. Don't have to go up in to some pokie cabin to pull the pick up just go thru the split windscreen. Perfect for my needs, so much so that I got another smaller version the 440 Sport, ideal for 2 people when I sneak away to the Bach.

Nice boat

Originally Posted by Smiddy

for what its worth, I test deove a Mclay 590 (I think 590 - around that size anyway) it had a 90 Honda 4 on it, with 3 Adults in it, it really felt like it was struggling like fuck to get up on the plane and go, it put us off the 90 and I think 115min for a boat 590 - 6 meters

Yep nothing worse some an underpowered boat, and today the efficiencies are good, shit I had a 166 steadecraft with a 150 hp v6 all 1982 man that drank like there was no tomorrow, but hey as a ski boat it was a ripper, 60 mph yahoo, then I had a fig lass fireball 14'-6"with a 140 Johnson on it as a ski tug, no bad habits just grunt excellent boat.

Need more power to get out of the water in lakes too don't forget. Motor makes less power above sea level and fresh water is way less buoyant than salt.
Can make the boat feel very sluggish.

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I've heard the etech evinrudes are good for a two stroke , super efficient on gas and oil with little maintence . Just have to use special oil .

We use a 6.8m centre console Inflateable RIB with 90hp 2-stroke Yamaha.

There is no wasted space on them, can walk all around the boat, can easily have 4+ people SCUBA diving off of it and you can get on and off of it over the side.

It's just really practical and tows easy because it's so light and uses bugger all fuel compared to equivalent glass boats. It has no shade but a cover could easily be put up. Very stable. I don't know why they aren't more popular.

Originally Posted by Munsey

I've heard the etech evinrudes are good for a two stroke , super efficient on gas and oil with little maintence . Just have to use special oil .

yep they are bloody good motors. Great performance, but i have a fishing buddy who had one (250 Etec0, Lunched itself at 450 hours and Evinrude did not want to know. Now it has a Yamaha on it with a corresponding dent in his wallet.

Originally Posted by mikee

yep they are bloody good motors. Great performance, but i have a fishing buddy who had one (250 Etec0, Lunched itself at 450 hours and Evinrude did not want to know. Now it has a Yamaha on it with a corresponding dent in his wallet.

Another issue/consideration for me living on the coast is getting a motor serviced properly.
What sort of service regime do the Yamaha 2 strokes require?


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Originally Posted by R93

Another issue/consideration for me living on the coast is getting a motor serviced properly.
What sort of service regime do the Yamaha 2 strokes require?


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I reckon you could most likely do a std 2 stroke yourself as they are quite simple. In all my travels for work on the seiners I have seen them try all brands and types. Still the most common outboard on their speed boats is the Yamaha 2 stroke. They get hell. Started on deck, straight to full tit as soon as they hit the water, then switched off and stored with no flushing. Ships engineers can do all maintenance inboard and spares are cheap. I asked how the 4 strokes and E tec's went as was told. " they go fucken good when they are going and when they stop we have to send em back to the states for repair". Usually the report comes back "not worth repair

My brother had 2 old 1988 Yamaha 90s on the back of his old boat. They looked like corroded lumps mounted on the back of the boat but the never let him down

Think the old mans one was 10 hours to adjust oil back from rich run in setting and new plugs. Then 50 then 100 200 etc

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Yup should have remembered what I seen on the boat I worked on.
Apart from the skip all the motors were yamies.
Trashed. Winched up and left. And they at least operated like that for months on end.



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Originally Posted by mikee

I reckon you could most likely do a std 2 stroke yourself as they are quite simple. In all my travels for work on the seiners I have seen them try all brands and types. Still the most common outboard on their speed boats is the Yamaha 2 stroke. They get hell. Started on deck, straight to full tit as soon as they hit the water, then switched off and stored with no flushing. Ships engineers can do all maintenance inboard and spares are cheap. I asked how the 4 strokes and E tec's went as was told. " they go fucken good when they are going and when they stop we have to send em back to the states for repair". Usually the report comes back "not worth repair

My brother had 2 old 1988 Yamaha 90s on the back of his old boat. They looked like corroded lumps mounted on the back of the boat but the never let him down

That's because the direct copy of the original..... Johnson/ Evenrude. Now they don't dissolve like the early ones?