The Engine Search: Mission Accomplished!!!

Brian Welch of the The Boat Shed in Georgetown, SC had the engine we needed.  One of Brian's good customers had ordered a brand new 4 stroke, 250 hp Yamaha and sold us his 97' 225 hp, 2 stroke Yamaha.  What a blessing!  The engine comes with  a stainless steel prop, controls, gauges, reservoir, and very, very low hours.  It was used an average of 14 hours per year.  The SCKs do that many hours in a couple of weeks! There are less expensive engines out there, but Brian knows the previous owner and The Boat Shed had done all the maintenance on this engine over the years.  Having a personal history of the engine was worth the extra money.

This engine also has something else we needed ... a 30" shaft. That is significant!  A 30" shaft, which is long by most standards, has allowed me to make another purchase.  If all goes as planned, we'll post more about that at the end of the week.

Frankie and I spend Saturday changing the wheel bearings of the boat trailer.  Because trailers get backed down and submerged into the water when off-loading the boat, the bearings can easily get damaged by the saltwater if not maintained correctly.  Changing wheel bearings is a dirty job under the best of conditions. However, wheel bearings have a nasty habit of going out at the worst times ... 32 miles from home, in the rain, at night, when the temperatures have dropped below freezing due to the driving wind, on a narrow road with no shoulder, just after your cell phone battery died, on the only day of your life that you left your tools at the house.

Better safe than sorry...really, really sorry.