does anyone know anything about these motors. i have a lil 12ft boat and wanted the 10 or or 18 HP
Are they reliable motors and hows the power on um

They are sweet powerful little motors. If I had a short transom id buy one.

How wide is your boat?

Make sure they've improved the shaft and seals

the seals hes refering to were used in the first few 12hp models. There is now and has been a weed gaurd that protects the seals and bearings from vegitation wrapping around the prop shaft inbetween the prop and prop shaft housing. Not one failure on the new design.

A friend of mine had a 10 hp and it was a bad ass lil motor untill you hit sand or weeds and there goes the seals. He brought it to the shop 2 maybe 3 times and was suppose to be fixed the new way but still messed up

its a 12 by 48 rivit boat so its very lite. i think im guna go with the copperhead 12hp. i plan on hunting catahoula and saline alott. i also have land at lake darbonne and a camp at sherbune. mostly lake that im running and not marsh

Thats gonna be a sweet lil setup, the smaller sd's perform very well on wider bottom boats while loaded.