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Location: Hayward, WI | In hindsight that was a lot of random questions. 
Regarding the fuel economy, I get what you are saying. They all stink. The way I'm looking at it is I just wouldn't want my gas budget on a week at LOTW to go from $250 to $1000. I'm assuming a bigger boat and motor is going to burn more gas, I just wouldn't want it to be drastic. Most of the time I'm cruising rather than running all out. The hope would be the bigger boat would cruise faster than my current rig but be running lower rpm to do so... so hopefully not guzzling gas TOO bad.
A 150 with power steering would be ideal. Curious about a 115 though as that could possibly open up motor options on the used market, and in a way I have mixed feelings about running the powered hydraulic steering (if something in the system crashes are you dead in the water with no ability to steer?)
I have the old Titan steering lock system on my 1760 now and like it, but not sure what doubling the horsepower would be like.
Edited by curleytail 8/19/2018 10:08 AM
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