Myth: Boating is very expensive
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] season pass for your family of four to ski at Killington in Vermont costs about $4,000, according to the resort website, making that $2,500 slip fee for a season of boating not look so bad. Golfing? A popular course in southern Maine, called Point Sebago Resort offers a season pass for one person, including a cart, in 2012 was $1,440. Multiply that times four and your family is spending a lot of money to get frustrated waiting for tourists from Massachusetts who keep losing their balls in the woods. If you’re going to play, you’re going to pay.
Myth: Four-stroke outboards are more fuel-efficient than two-strokes
You’ve got to burn fuel to make horsepower. Comparisons are often made between older, carbureted two-strokes and newer fuel-injected four-strokes. In those cases, the enhanced economy comes from the fuel delivery system, not from the number of revolutions in a power cycle. Compare modern two-strokes like Evinrude’s E-Tec outboards to modern four-strokes, and the difference is too close to call. Check out boat test database and see for yourself . . .
Myth: You can’t store batteries on a concrete floor
Concrete, wood, shag carpet – it does not matter what surface batteries are stored on. The plastic case insulates the plates. This myth dates back to when batteries were cased in hard rubber instead of plastic. The rubber was somewhat porous and the moisture present in a cement floor could cause a leak to ground. Today’s plastic battery cases are not at all porous.
Source: Boating Magazine . . .
