[Capt. Debbie]

We had Ficht 200hp's on the sea tow boats. Problematic designs. Like the onboard control computer is water cooled and the cooling water pick up tube to cool the damn thing is so narrow that a bit of sand will clog it. If computer is too hot, it goes to a run back position to keep about 2000rpms

See what the engine hours are. Those Ficht's have computer logs in their memory. Best Envinrude guy was Monmouth Marine on Rte 36 in Leonardo.

They can hook up a computer and even tell what the rpms were that were running, how long, # of starts and even if the original break in was properly followed. A gold mine of history is available to you on that motor with that PC hook up and software.

Not a bad motor, good on fuel, but had nuisance stuff popping up.