[Gerry Zagorski]

My first choice would be the Etech and 2nd would be the older 2 stroke Yammie.

The Yammie HDPI's like most early newer tech pressure injected 2 strokes had issues with blowing power heads early on and not sure if they fixed them. If you go to the used boat sites you will see that boats with these engines are typically selling for way less than their peers with Yammie 4 strokes for this very reason. I would pass on them.

Johnson/Evinrude also had many issues blowing power heads with their new 2 stroke Ficht engines late 90s early 2000s. It got so bad they sold out to Bombardier and they completely redesigned them and came out with Etech. I hear lots of good things about them. Great on fuel long periods between scheduled maintianence and very reliable. Great power to weight ratio too. This engine also has an ECM you can plug into and get all sorts of diagnotics and info on the history of the engine. If this one checks out it would probably be your best bet.

Older 2 stroke Yammies are fairly dependable but not so great on fuel and oil. There are also lots of inexpensive aftermarket and remanufactured parts available like power heads and lower units should it break.