Look at the back of any outboard’s lower unit, just above the propeller, and you’ll notice a flat horizontal fin sticking out on either side. That’s the outboard motor cavitation plate, sometimes called the anti-ventilation plate, and its position relative to the boat’s hull is one of the most overlooked specifications in the entire rigging
Somewhere around 90 to 115 HP, most boaters start noticing that their arms get tired turning the wheel, and that’s usually the point where the conversation turns to hydraulic steering for outboard motors. It’s not an upgrade every boat needs, but on bigger engines, twin-engine setups, or boats that spend a lot of time running
One of the first practical decisions a buyer makes when picking a smaller outboard is electric start vs manual start outboard motors, and it’s a decision that matters more day-to-day than most of the specs people spend hours researching. Neither option is objectively better across the board — it comes down to how you actually
A question we hear constantly from returning customers is what to do with the engine they already own once they’ve decided to move up in horsepower. That’s exactly what our outboard motor trade-in program is built for — a straightforward way to put your current engine’s value toward something bigger, newer, or simply better suited
Walk around any marina with center consoles lined up on twin power, and you’ll notice something a lot of boat owners never think to ask about: the propellers on the port and starboard engines spin in opposite directions. That’s not a manufacturing accident. It’s a deliberate setup called a counter rotating outboard motor, and understanding
If you just picked up a new or freshly rebuilt outboard, the single biggest mistake you can make is treating it like an engine that’s already broken in. The outboard motor break-in period is the short window — usually somewhere between one and ten hours of running time — where the internal parts of your
If you’ve been pricing outboards for a sailboat auxiliary or a small runabout, you’ve probably already landed on the same question we get asked every week: what’s a fair Tohatsu MFS9.9EEFTUL price, and is it actually worth paying for the electric-start, long-shaft, power-tilt version instead of the bare-bones model? Short answer — yes, and we’ll
Ask five different boat dealers what “Nissan outboard” means and you’ll get five slightly different answers, because the brand has meant a few different things over the decades. But if you’re shopping Nissan outboard motors for sale right now, you’re almost certainly looking at the small stuff — the 6HP through 9.8HP portable four-strokes that
If you’ve ever bought a used outboard and had it die on you three weeks later, there’s a decent chance the seller never checked the one number that would have warned you: compression. An outboard motor compression test takes about fifteen minutes with the right tool and tells you more about the internal health of
If you’ve ever pulled the drain plug on an outboard’s gear case and watched milky, coffee-with-too-much-creamer fluid dribble out instead of clean gold-brown oil, you already know why this matters. Outboard motor lower unit oil is the single most overlooked fluid on the back of your boat, and it’s also the one most likely to
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