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Sea Trials: Power to the Props, Music to the Ears

We put a Mercury Verado-powered Contender 39ST outboard through the paces.

The power-to-weight ratio of Mercury’s 5.7L V10 Verado outboards stands out right away: These are 350- and 400-horsepower engines weighing as little as 695 pounds. I’ll spare you the math but encourage you to look around and reflect on that.

They’ve a small footprint, too, mounting down to 26-inch centers, if called for.

Performance? Oh yes. High displacement, quad-cam design; torque-optimized spark timing; performance-tuned intakes and a Revolution X propeller engineered for the package promise gratifying low-end power and...

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