Fr3AkAzOiD
Cadet
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- Mar 8, 2009
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I'd like to say hi as I'm new to these forums and just bought my first boat...
So for my first boat I figured I'd start off small, really small, 10.5 ft small.
I picked up '99 Mercury Watermouse, I'm like it's 5th owner but it was in pretty good shape and they are becoming rare, in the past 6 months I've only seen 4 for sale nation wide so I didn't mind driving 600 miles to pick it up since I've been in love with them since I first rented one at Disney.
They were designed for rentals on Disney's lakes and Mercury made a few extra to sell to the public but they were a failure, mainly due to their $5,000 - $6,500 price tag, who would buy one of these little 2 seaters when they could get a wave runner for half that.
Thing is they hold their value and due to scarsity are still demanding 50%+ of original sale price if in good shape which is both good and bad. :\
It's running a 2 cycle Mercury 15 hp outboard but the owner 2 or 3 back got the cover for a 9.9 so he didn't have to register it in whatever state he was from.
This also makes it a nice little sleeper speedboat, as most people would just go "oh, how cute , a little boat with a 9.9 hp engine".
Had it out for the first time today in a small local lake and 3 guys in a metal fishing boat with a Johnson 30hp outboard wanted to race me.
They didn't expect me to hit 26 mpg (verified with gps) from a standstill in 6 seconds, but when the boat weighs as little as this thing it really gets up and goes.
One bonus is I can operate it in no PWC lakes as it's registered as a standard boat.
One downside to it's small size is you will have to expect to get wet if the water is the least bit choppy.
You can see how low you sit in the water in the pic below.
The prop has a good amount of nicks but nothing catastrophic, as does the hull (some sort of plastic), which also needs to be scrubbed down but I'm hoping with a new or repaired prop, and a smoothed out hull and an engine tune up I'll break 30 mph, which in such a small boat seems plenty fast.
No leaks and the engine started right up and never hesitated in the 90 minutes I was out, thing is damn fuel efficient also, used up less then 1.5 gallons of gas for all the full throttle fun I had.
So for my first boat I figured I'd start off small, really small, 10.5 ft small.
I picked up '99 Mercury Watermouse, I'm like it's 5th owner but it was in pretty good shape and they are becoming rare, in the past 6 months I've only seen 4 for sale nation wide so I didn't mind driving 600 miles to pick it up since I've been in love with them since I first rented one at Disney.
They were designed for rentals on Disney's lakes and Mercury made a few extra to sell to the public but they were a failure, mainly due to their $5,000 - $6,500 price tag, who would buy one of these little 2 seaters when they could get a wave runner for half that.
Thing is they hold their value and due to scarsity are still demanding 50%+ of original sale price if in good shape which is both good and bad. :\
It's running a 2 cycle Mercury 15 hp outboard but the owner 2 or 3 back got the cover for a 9.9 so he didn't have to register it in whatever state he was from.
This also makes it a nice little sleeper speedboat, as most people would just go "oh, how cute , a little boat with a 9.9 hp engine".
Had it out for the first time today in a small local lake and 3 guys in a metal fishing boat with a Johnson 30hp outboard wanted to race me.
They didn't expect me to hit 26 mpg (verified with gps) from a standstill in 6 seconds, but when the boat weighs as little as this thing it really gets up and goes.
One bonus is I can operate it in no PWC lakes as it's registered as a standard boat.
One downside to it's small size is you will have to expect to get wet if the water is the least bit choppy.
You can see how low you sit in the water in the pic below.
The prop has a good amount of nicks but nothing catastrophic, as does the hull (some sort of plastic), which also needs to be scrubbed down but I'm hoping with a new or repaired prop, and a smoothed out hull and an engine tune up I'll break 30 mph, which in such a small boat seems plenty fast.
No leaks and the engine started right up and never hesitated in the 90 minutes I was out, thing is damn fuel efficient also, used up less then 1.5 gallons of gas for all the full throttle fun I had.
She's sick of the boat I do have.
