Mercury Jet Drive

[Mercury16]

Hello everyone,
i was just wondering how many of you have heard about the new outboard Jet drives by Mercury, also i think a few other brands have touched on them a bit
eg Yamaha.
anyway what do you think about them??
I havent seen any boat shop that sells them only a few pics on google and the mercury website.
do you reckon they will be embraced?
ive attached a couple

Peter;)

[ashh]

be a cool weapon against those that fish too close to you ;) :D

[thirsty merc]

when i was in nz back in 1999- 2000 i saw one over there, can,t remember what brand it was but it looked pretty cool...........thirsty

[BM]

Jet units are about the least effiicient means of moving a vessel. I'd be quite surprised if they made them in high hp configurations.

I'd be interested to know the logic behind their decision to produce them. What does their marketing say?

Cheers

[Dan5]

I once saw a 215hp jet tiller steer merc o/b on the daly river about 10 years ago a guy from mildura owned it,itwas on a 16ft punt and built for some swamps near there.It was a wild bit of gear! Dan..

[Mercury16]

they also have inboard ones- the 200 optimax, 240 EFI, and the 250 Optimax M2, i think they only make 25hp and 40hp in the outboard range.

[mick_molloy]

Shallow Snaggy water.......

[BM]

That makes sense. I hadn't considered that.

Gee, there will be bugger all shipped to Australia I reckon.......

Cheers

[FNQCairns]

Yeah the yamaha ones have been around for donkeys, OMC also, pretty sure merc kept up with the competition, the Yam 90 3cyl engine in jet was rated as a 65hp at the jet I think so they certainly created come losses. Possibly a bit better today. The Yanks love em.

cheers fnq

[Mercury16]

yer i found out about them on the mercury American site they arnt on the Aussie one.

[Dan5]

In 1999 when i was pricing o/b motors they were in the standard merc brochure dunno what hp they went up to for here but i definatly saw that 215hp it's a pretty weird size for a engine.Dan

[FNQCairns]

recon one would make a nice piece of kit for rooster-tailing the nong who anchors in a persons hard won berly trail:)

cheers fnq

[snelly1971]

In the mid 90`s Mariner made a 60hp model i think...they became quite popular with the fish farms for awhile...due to going over floating ropes ect..

Cheers Mick

[Sea-Dog]

Victa - the lawnmower people used to make one too.

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