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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME = NEW (to me) OUTBOARD MOTOR!!
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<blockquote data-quote="satx78247" data-source="post: 400414" data-attributes="member: 11019"><p>earl60446,</p><p></p><p>Have you heard of the HOMELITE or the PIERCE-FISHER 55HP outboard?? = Essentially the same engine. = a 59CI, 4-cylinder, 4-cycle outboard. - Built/sold from 1961-72.</p><p>Weighs 225# and is imVho the cheapest >50HP outboard out there to run all day AND that will happily/quietly troll for hours on a QUART of med-grade plain gasoline per hour. - The Homelite/Bearcat is GROSSLY OVER-engineered.</p><p>(NO JOKE: one quart per hour & the Bearcat/Homelite doesn't get hot doing it, as 2-cycle OB would.)</p><p></p><p>One reason that many people don't know about the Bearcat is that about the only boat dealers that aggressively promoted Bearcat OBs was BOSTON WHALER dealers AND dealers that catered to the "working watermen"/commercial fishermen.</p><p>(Richard Fisher owned the majority of Bearcat, after Homelite sold their outboard factory.)</p><p></p><p>Want to see a BEARCAT 55 "in the flesh" & quietly idling/not causing commotion/smoke/oil overboard/etc.?? - Go to: https://www.homelite55.com for LOTS more info.</p><p></p><p>yours, satx</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="satx78247, post: 400414, member: 11019"] earl60446, Have you heard of the HOMELITE or the PIERCE-FISHER 55HP outboard?? = Essentially the same engine. = a 59CI, 4-cylinder, 4-cycle outboard. - Built/sold from 1961-72. Weighs 225# and is imVho the cheapest >50HP outboard out there to run all day AND that will happily/quietly troll for hours on a QUART of med-grade plain gasoline per hour. - The Homelite/Bearcat is GROSSLY OVER-engineered. (NO JOKE: one quart per hour & the Bearcat/Homelite doesn't get hot doing it, as 2-cycle OB would.) One reason that many people don't know about the Bearcat is that about the only boat dealers that aggressively promoted Bearcat OBs was BOSTON WHALER dealers AND dealers that catered to the "working watermen"/commercial fishermen. (Richard Fisher owned the majority of Bearcat, after Homelite sold their outboard factory.) Want to see a BEARCAT 55 "in the flesh" & quietly idling/not causing commotion/smoke/oil overboard/etc.?? - Go to: https://www.homelite55.com for LOTS more info. yours, satx [/QUOTE]
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