Not really. Fuel consumption on a 250 Verado or an Opti Pro XS is pretty similar.

If they’re Merc racing engines, then there is no warranty on any of the 1,000hp and up engines

The only thing similar between 4 Optis and 4 Verados is that there are 4 of them. They're completely different outboards from each other

Well by now we all know one thing- their engines are fucking garbage

Is it a walleye boat or a bass boat? We rig a lot of walleye boats with Merc 350's and some Yamaha 350's. For a boat that heavy, they get up and move

When it’s calm out and your boat is setup correctly, doing 80 to me feels smoother driving a car. But I also have a windshield and goggles on. Sometimes I leave the passenger console out to piss my co-angler off. It’s rough when you got nothing blocking your face at that speed

Yep I bought a new Triton 21TRx a couple months ago. Had a Merc before that but I wanted to try something new. Just hit the 100 hour mark on it. So far it's been pretty impressive

Basscat and Legend both make a 21' that you can get a Merc Racing 400 on, but none that are shorter than that hull length

You’re right. I didn’t look at the picture where it clearly said said Simrad on top of the units. Just one picture where I saw a corner of the unit screen, where the button reminded me of a Garmin XSV unit. Every touch Lowrance unit I’ve used was MPH, but I don't have very much experience with Simrad.

Yeah it is. Im really happy with it

I know my SHO 250 has one

New GPS/Sonar units are pretty accurate. I’ve got $12k in Garmin sonar units on my boat so they better damn well be accurate lol. Trim, jack plate height, weight, prop size, pitch, and blade count are all factors for bow lift, chine walk, hole shot, and top speed-key things in getting to your spot before another guy…

Water pickup speedos are a great rough estimate gauge. Weeds can get lodged in the line, it can get soft over time and collapse, and depending what your hull is doing on plane, it’s usually always a few MPH’s off. In my world (high perf bass boats) gps speed works the best because we tune boats for max performance and…

Outboards that big are usually 10-15hp over what they are rated at

Pretty much all pleasure/fishing boats use MPH. Knots is usually only used for commercial or military vessels. Given the Garmin touch screen unit, I'd say they were using GPS speed. Usually more accurate than a water pickup speedometer, if something that expensive even uses a water pickup speedo I don't know

High output outboards are within 11% of the actual number they’re rated at. Kind of like old muscle cars. Many 250 H.O.’s are usually around 265

There’s no 17ft bass boat on earth that’s rated for a 400 outboard. Most 20-21ft bass boats are only rated to 250-300. So either your friend was a lunatic who wanted to destroy the transom of his boat, or your size estimation is way off. My 21TRX bass boat with a 250 hits 76 with a full tournament load.

Hey! This isn't country kitchen buffet

Cowl hood doesn't do shit for you when the back 1/3 of the engine sits under the rain tray

His articles just get more terrible as he goes. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say he’s doing a damn fine job trolling, because that’s one hell of an inaccurate statement.