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16 October 2007, 21:51
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle upon Tyne
Boat name: Happy Hours
Make: Scorpion
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First Verado 300
Today I took delivery of the new 2nd generation Verado 300 and replaced the 1st generation 275 Verado. Although I only have managed to put 4.5 hours onto the engine today I already have some views on this new product.
This is the first 300 in the UK however my understanding is that they should start coming thick and fast now.
Barrus and Mercury have now increased their warranty from 3 years to 5 years on all engines, which shows great faith in their products and gives the customer real, long term peace of mind.
The engine has a slightly deeper tone when running at speed and although its noticeable against the old engine it is certainly not intrusive and in my opinion rather nice actually. Also visually the engine is now a little shinier with silver graphics, it looks great, again in my opinion.
Due to the change in gearing the more powerful engine actually runs the same prop as the 275 so these stats are impressive when you consider its the same boat, prop, and weight although the new engine is not run in properly yet, my last one 'loosened up' around 15 hours.
My old top speed was 47 knots and today in far from ideal conditions I achived 52 knots. My old average fuel consumption was 1.7 litres per nm, I tend to run around 38 knots when cruising, my new figures at the same speeds was 1.4 litres per nm, although I expect these to continue to improve with better weather and a few more hours on the engine.
Another improvement is the Smart Craft Gauges. These have always been great however one issue was whenever an alarm activated it was not simple to fault find from it. The new system tells you the fault in plain english and then tells you if its a return to dock critical problem or a non critical problem.
Finaly my understanding is that its not a straight swap. Differant loom, and differant size controls to name but two problems encountered.
I will post more figures when I have them, until then here are a couple of pics.
Ollie
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16 October 2007, 22:09
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Country: UK - Channel Islands
Town: Guernsey
Boat name: Monkey Nutz
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Length: 8m +
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Looks great. It must nice to have the "First" one...
I will look forward to a closer inspection next time you are over..
Tony
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16 October 2007, 22:56
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Country: UK - England
Town: Cowes, Isle of Wight
Boat name: TiLT 2
Make: Avon Adventure 620
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That outboard is sexual and has made me come over all unnecessary. Off for a cold bath.
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16 October 2007, 23:04
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Country: Ireland
Town: Dublin & Enniscrone
Boat name: K'adó
Make: Redbay
Length: 7m +
Engine: Suzuki 300
Join Date: Oct 2004
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congrats
Ollie,
Congrats.
Welcome to the 300 club!
rgds
Peter
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16 October 2007, 23:38
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Nice one Ollie .... well someone had to do it first  ... mind that transom now... thats a lot of grunt..and weight 
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17 October 2007, 02:28
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Town: swansea
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The 300hp Verado makes far more sense than the others - at last it has a respectable power to weight ratio.
Will be interesting to see what the proper fuel economy will be - please keep us posted!!!
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17 October 2007, 08:43
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Town: Lee on the Solent
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Nice!
Obviously a busy day in Cowes yesterday!!!!
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17 October 2007, 10:20
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Country: UK - England
Town: Cowes, Isle of Wight
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Have you got any more pictures of your RIB? I am interested in maybe getting a Scorpion.
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17 October 2007, 10:42
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle upon Tyne
Boat name: Happy Hours
Make: Scorpion
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Engine: 300 Verado
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Have you got any more pictures of your RIB? I am interested in maybe getting a Scorpion.
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You have a PM
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17 October 2007, 10:43
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle upon Tyne
Boat name: Happy Hours
Make: Scorpion
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Nice!
Obviously a busy day in Cowes yesterday!!!!
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Had a nice coffee from the new coffee shop Steam next to Red Funnel, made for a nice break from the wind and waves... 
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17 October 2007, 10:44
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle upon Tyne
Boat name: Happy Hours
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: 300 Verado
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Originally Posted by codprawn
The 300hp Verado makes far more sense than the others - at last it has a respectable power to weight ratio.
Will be interesting to see what the proper fuel economy will be - please keep us posted!!!
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Its interesting to hear your views on that, they appear to match those of Barrus, its my understanding that they will not be importing the 275's anymore, only the 250's then straight to the 300's.
Will post more numbers when I have them over a longer cruise.
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17 October 2007, 10:46
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle upon Tyne
Boat name: Happy Hours
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Nice one Ollie .... well someone had to do it first ... mind that transom now... thats a lot of grunt..and weight |
Do you mean the engine or us two fat lads on the back??? 
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17 October 2007, 10:50
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Originally Posted by qcamel
This is the first 300 in the UK pics.
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The fat bloke on your right is telling you porkies, I fitted a pair of 300's to an Ice Marine boat in August.
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17 October 2007, 10:55
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Make: Scorpion
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Quote:
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The fat bloke on your right is telling you porkies, I fitted a pair of 300's to an Ice Marine boat in August.
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UK supplied with the 5 year warranty?
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17 October 2007, 11:13
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Country: UK - England
Town: Cowes, Isle of Wight
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Make: Avon Adventure 620
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17 October 2007, 13:10
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Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
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Oh my god - Mike Williams on a boat - is it Christmas or something?
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17 October 2007, 13:12
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle upon Tyne
Boat name: Happy Hours
Make: Scorpion
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Engine: 300 Verado
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Lets not get too carried away, we were still tied to the dock
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17 October 2007, 14:07
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Town: Hamble
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Quote:
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... well someone had to do it first
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Or as we like to say.......
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17 October 2007, 18:10
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Quote:
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Today I took delivery of the new 2nd generation Verado 300
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Very nice mate, personally I think they look better than the 275hp, looking forward to mine even more now.
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23 October 2007, 18:19
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Country: UK - England
Town: southampton
Boat name: TOP CAT 2
Make: Scorpion 8.1
Length: 8m +
Engine: 250hp HO
Join Date: Aug 2003
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that bathing ladder seems to be the standard issue scorpion item! is it a plastimo one?
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