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The hours are very low for a boat of that age. As long as it was properly flushed I would believe their should be plenty of life left in them. I do not have personal experience with those engines but I do have plenty of outboard experience. They best way to check them out is to run a compression check on each cylinder and then have them run even on muffs at idle and see how they behave. Most outboard problems that are costly seem to show more symptoms at idle and shifting in and out of gear in the form of idling and sputtering. That is because at higher RPM's the motor will advance timing or try to deliver more or less fuel to compensate for costly problems like scored cylinder walls or slightly squashed pistons from over heating. Ditto for any test drive. Getting engine up to different RPM's is important, but I spend quite a while idling around the harbor or up and down a channel when I am testing an outboard.

Good Luck
Jim G.