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Joe,
To bring this back into reality, not all motors, nor all boats in Florida get used that much.
I have to disagree somewhat. Its true that boat owners who baby their boats, their equipment will stay nice indefinitely. Most boats are not babied and kept covered in yards or garages. The boating season is 12 months a year. A motor stored in the open or even worse, in salt water will get scorched by the sun in just a few years.
I have a `58 Evinrude 35, from Wisconsin, a `56 Evinrude 30 from upstate NY, and a `87 150 Suzuki, from Mo. and they are in far better shape cosmetically and have better compression, than the `99 Johnson 25 I just bought that spent its life in S. Florida, in the sun. The only reason I bought this motor was I don`t seem to have good luck when receiving shipped motors. Always some king of damage during shipping.

rich