Oh man, preaching to the choir here. The things I’ve seen… or had people ask me to do. No, I will not endanger the lives of your crew, yourself, and everyone in a two nautical mile radius of you. Yes you can buy something like it (but not built to marine grade) online and install it yourself (poorly) for a third of the price, but you’ll be either doing it all over again soon, having me fix it, or killing yourself.

Edit: I will say that managing the shipyard was worse for me. It was during covid and everyone was so demanding. I was yelled at, threatened, we had a guy rampage through the shop convinced we’d sold his outboard because the repairs were taking so long. No man, yamaha was 6 months wait for parts, like we told you. It was definitely because I was the face everyone saw and shielded the techs as best I could. But man, that was the end for me in the industry. 30 years and I’m out, going back to school.