Eric & Ron are river testing Ron's brand new Mercury motor on the Willamette River. Shop boats, motors, and more at www.stevensmarine.com. Subscribe to our channel!
I have been driving big tillers for years and this a great video. We had to custom fab up "stuff" that was sketchy in the past and this looks solid. The reason why we stuck with tillers so long was we run big rivers and go into areas with large boulders spaced tightly together, You had to stand and weave in and around many to get to the good fishing spots, that meant a tiller. We used larger motors to get there quick enough fish, catch trophy's and get back before dark.
Mercury! I grew up on a lake in MN and spent a LOT of time on the water our family was a Johnson/Evinrude family completely then in JR high I had a 10ft GW Invader 2 seat speed boat and I put a 65 Merc on that the only gauge in the boat was a tach for testing props the 65 was a 4 cylinder engine with a short shaft it always ran strong! Now that I am a bit more advanced in life My pontoon has a Merc 4 stroke on it and my fishing boat has a Merc 4 stroke on it and my speed boat has a Supercharged 502 BBC with lots of very nice parts on it and I am running a Merv Bravo 1 with a Merc Sportsman lower unit. I own nothing but Merc now and for a while I was a very devout Yamaha owner not sure how this happened but I will also say I have never been disappointed with a Mercury product!
Joseph Rentie It has power steering. Basically, when you push the handle one way, it turns the pump on and moves the engine that direction. They showed him taking his hands on in the video, so no torque to the driver at all.
WOW! I know im goin out for a 300merc tiller handle now! He has a chessie named roscoe just like me! My boy is 11 now! And im on the east coast, south carolina. Great pee dee river to be exact
that power tiller is impressive. boat tech has come a long way but I have a hard time trusting and depending on so much electronics, especially in a saltwater environment. analog will still be my #1 choice.
back around 1980 i ran a tiller steer 50 hp yamaha on a 16ft lund pike with a friction copilot .. it would troll all day long and run ~40mph beautifully ... people thought i was nutz !! this is way cool !! 300hp J.H.C !! no effort @ all !!
Being a superbike owner I've rode with a ball cap backwards, will fly right off at serious speeds. Wearing it the correct way with the bill dip down a little bit guaranteed triple digits without flying off 🤪
This 300hp motor costs 8k more than a 700hp hellcat crate motor, they also point vertically and flood the cylinders with oil if you put them on the side.
@Stevens Marine Talk with your contacts at Mercury and develop a proximity key for the outboard that way if the driver goes overboard, the outboard dies. Otherwise have owners man up with the kill switch.
I ve got a 60 ft x 11 ft steel widebeam barge here in the UK that I liveaboard ( see my vid ) it weighs about 30 tons and has a 52 hp inboard. The speed limit on inland waterways here is about 6 mph , I'd love to bolt that on the back and watch her fly.......................
Nice tiller but I have to say I'm disappointed at the lack of speed. I use to have a 1966 Checkmate MX-15 paired with a 1983 Johnson 115 with a 21° prop (stock is 19°). Did a radar run at 61mph. Did I hear you guys only hit 47mph?
I agree something is not right here, my dad's 19 foot Boston Whaler with a 200hp Johnson hit 60mph , they did say the speed was climbing at 47mph But they were at 5700 rpm which is about as high as you want to go , so either that boat is just a complete heavy bathtub that will not move or it's loaded down This should have been 60 or 70 easily
Its an aluminum boat. Probably the 25' model Columbia. It has a 101" beam and 82" at the chine. Not a hull for speed. The 300 looks like a good match for that boat.
@@jacksonsalinas7412 on a small boat like 16' or less then tiller is way cheaper and nice to save that extra money. On this boat, I would want a race seat mounted to the very front center of the boat with a steer stick on one side and throttle on the other
Let's throw a yamaha on it and compare it! I just bought a skeeter and it has a 175 yamaha on it. That thing absolutely flys. I also have a bass tracker with a mercury on it. I think I like the yamaha a little more, but the mercury has done good for me for 15 years now. It is only a 40 and it's ran wide open it's entire life.
Has anyone thought of adapting these engines for use in a hot rod? I'm no engineer, but I suspect that it's doable. Build an adapter plate for the transmission of your choice and sort out a radiator and electric fan.
They're a whole lot more expensive than fully-built race-ready crate motors that have all the aftermarket support these do not...of course, I am sure that every car guy immediately thinks about swaps as you did...and so did I. Only advantage I can think of is size and weight, areas in which I am sure these are optimized. They're probably quite rugged too seeing the conditions they're expected to perform in. Still, 7 marine uses actual supercharged LS motors in their outboards and very few people could justify the extra expenses involved in going the other way around. Would love to see it getting done with all the details though!
Install a jack plate trim it up, and let that monster loose, I want to see a rooster tail! My 150 hp optimax will blow that thing away, that motor on that boat wasn’t very impressive! That motor cost way more than that aluminum boat!
