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Mercury 600 hp outboard
« on: February 11, 2021, 10:01:58 PM »
Haven't seen the full specs, so I don't know if I can fit twins on my 18'.


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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2021, 10:06:16 PM »
While it’s cool there is a lot of extra crap to go wrong.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2021, 11:29:52 PM »
Tiller option?...
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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2021, 03:04:59 AM »
Horse power should never exceed operator IQ...
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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2021, 06:45:18 AM »
get sum!
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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2021, 06:46:55 AM »
Hold my beer and watch this....
What could possibly go wrong?

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2021, 06:56:22 AM »
V12! Wow! Pretty amazing where they have taken the outboards these days. Too bad Evinrude went away. A V12 two stroke would AWESOME!
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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2021, 07:39:50 AM »
Tiller option?...

You better be strapped to it!  😁

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2021, 07:50:39 AM »
Tiller option?...

 :chuckle: :chuckle: You might end up in a tree or at least your boat would. You’d be 1/2 mile away in the river.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2021, 08:00:45 AM »
Weeeeee!

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2021, 08:27:28 AM »
And for the low, low price of only $78K each! Impressive specs on the motor, but a little too expensive for my taste.... Of course, if you have a boat big enough that it would work on, the price probably doesn't faze you too much!  :chuckle:

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2021, 08:40:44 AM »
And for the low, low price of only $78K each! Impressive specs on the motor, but a little too expensive for my taste.... Of course, if you have a boat big enough that it would work on, the price probably doesn't faze you too much!  :chuckle:

Lots of the big (50’+) MJM’s are outboard powered. Comparable inboard power is more expensive and takes up more room etc.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2021, 09:29:05 AM »
Those lower units look expensive to replace. You lose steering offshore and you’re screwed. With 7 marine going out of business someone had to step up for the big center console market share.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2021, 09:48:06 AM »
You lose steering offshore and you’re screwed.

Why?

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2021, 10:08:04 AM »
Haven't seen the full specs, so I don't know if I can fit twins on my 18'.



You know some Tuna guy is gonna put four of those on the back of boat so he can get to the Tuna faster hahaha
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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2021, 10:14:56 AM »
Haven't seen the full specs, so I don't know if I can fit twins on my 18'.



You know some Tuna guy is gonna put four of those on the back of boat so he can get to the Tuna faster hahaha
And when he gets rid of the inboards, he can add an extra fuel tank and an expanded ice box.  So he gets there faster, chases them longer and catches more of them.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2021, 10:18:13 AM »
You lose steering offshore and you’re screwed.

Why?
Have you seen how the lower unit operates?

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2021, 10:26:58 AM »
Haven't seen the full specs, so I don't know if I can fit twins on my 18'.


This is one of the worst marketing videos for a product I've ever seen.  It's like an intern fresh out of business school wrote the script and had a bet with his frat buddies about how many business buzz-words he could get the top brass to say.
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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2021, 10:32:53 AM »
You lose steering offshore and you’re screwed.

Why?
Have you seen how the lower unit operates?

Yes.

I think if you had an issue it would be easy enough to bring the outboards to center or as close as possible and throttle steer.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2021, 10:34:40 AM »
Gotta agree with that Skillet.  It reminded me of a high school science fair exhibit -  Cool motor, let's go to the next booth and see the baking soda/vinegar volcano.

You will quickly see these in the Florida market, spend the money getting other people to rep the product.  I would think 90% of these go to south Florida on $750K+ center consoles.  The old triple 200's can be replaced with a single which is likely more fuel efficient, almost certainly less to maintain.

Probably a good option for swordfish charters and those with fat wallets that like to go fast.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2021, 11:56:28 AM »
I just about laughed myself to the floor when the cosmetic design guy started talking about the lines on the motor and how it felt "corporate jet over fighter jet".

Just shows they are not marketing to me...

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2021, 12:25:11 PM »
Gotta agree with that Skillet.  It reminded me of a high school science fair exhibit -  Cool motor, let's go to the next booth and see the baking soda/vinegar volcano.

You will quickly see these in the Florida market, spend the money getting other people to rep the product.  I would think 90% of these go to south Florida on $750K+ center consoles.  The old triple 200's can be replaced with a single which is likely more fuel efficient, almost certainly less to maintain.

Probably a good option for swordfish charters and those with fat wallets that like to go fast.

I think it's gonna be a great engine, with some quirks and problems to work out for sure.  Being a naturally aspirated engine and still calling it a Verado is a little odd, but the simplicity of the induction relative to the supercharged engines is a plus.  Putting 600 hp in the water on a single lower unit is going to mean real fuel savings.  Charter guys with 30'+ boats and long runs will be all over these, IMHO.  We'll know the durability of the lower units pretty quick under those conditions.  :twocents:
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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2021, 01:37:00 PM »
Maybe a couple of them bad boys strapped on back the Diamond Lil?  I can see a new business.  Hanson skiing charters.
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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2021, 01:57:26 PM »
Haven't seen the full specs, so I don't know if I can fit twins on my 18'.



You know some Tuna guy is gonna put four of those on the back of boat so he can get to the Tuna faster hahaha
and then not get back because he ran out of fuel running V-12’s!!😂

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2021, 01:59:28 PM »
https://www.seven-marine.com/

Might end up like seven marine.  They’re gone now

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2021, 02:05:16 PM »
Seven Marine was a one-trick pony.

These days, more companies die from irresponsible debt than product problems.  Just look out there, anyone manufacturing anything having to do with the outdoors has never seen opportunities like there are now.  Remington is a good case, if you can't manufacture arms and ammunition in a profitable way in 2020, you should be out of business, it's not going to be much better and there will be much worse years.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2021, 02:13:51 PM »
I think seven marine only offered two products, though, a 560?hp and 620?hp.  Product idea seemed sound, probably just overestimated their market--which over the last four years with such low gas prices probably should have been great for sales.    Mercury has the benefit of having a more diverse product mix, so I'd guess they can string it along a little more efficiently.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2021, 02:16:20 PM »
Seven Marine was a one-trick pony.

These days, more companies die from irresponsible debt than product problems.  Just look out there, anyone manufacturing anything having to do with the outdoors has never seen opportunities like there are now.  Remington is a good case, if you can't manufacture arms and ammunition in a profitable way in 2020, you should be out of business, it's not going to be much better and there will be much worse years.
Agree, there are some supercar and superbike manufacturers out there that can seem to do well on low volume output.

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Re: Mercury 600 hp outboard
« Reply #28 on: February 13, 2021, 10:35:09 PM »
It’s a friggin Mercury lol

 


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