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Will do in time Phil, thanks for the prod.

And spuds, I performed the annual season's end maintenance myself last year, and intend to do the same this season in a matter of days. The costs for same are inconsequential, an oil filter, engine oil and lower unit oil.

I believe after 3 years or 100 hours, there is an increased service requirement that I will likely have done at a Mercury dealer / service location. I don't recall the requirements, and don't know the cost of this service interval.

Recently, I thought I read that E-TECs operated in salt water have a traditional one year service interval, rather than the highly touted 3 year interval. You boat in salt, spuds, is that service interval difference correct?

Finally, I see that my thread title and opening sentence have been edited without attribution or notation. My boat has a USCG placard calling it an Outrage 18. It has hull decals calling it an Outrage - 18'. While I'm aware that the model changed names in 1990, I call mine an 18, because that is what the factory called it, that is how its labeled and that is an indisputably more clear description of this hull.

I posted this information on Whaler Central due to the heavy handed editing on the alternate Forum. Editing that would often change intent as much as content. While the editing herein isn't nearly as egregious as I've described, it was neither necessary nor accurate with the corrections made.