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Larry -- That is amusing. I have heard you repeat that story several times. The weight you cite seems to change each time. Once you said the Yamaha was 40 pounds over. Another time you said it was 45 pounds over. Now you say it was 60 pounds over.

What you fail to mention is that the magazine, Bass & Walleye Boats is no longer in business and that furthermore, before they folded, they had to print a retraction where they admitted they got their weight measurements wrong.

At any rate the motors weighed were not 90 HP motors like stover86montauk is putting on his Montauk. Thank goodness he's not getting a Mercury FourStroke 90; that thing is a monster, MUCH heavier than the Yamaha F90. It has to have the worst power/weight ratio of any 90 HP outboard ever made.

I drove by one yesterday in downtown Seattle. It was on the back of a very nice late 1980s Montauk on the way to the ferry terminal. I had to do a double take because it was so huge and at first I thought somebody had put a 200 HP motor on a classic Montauk!