Than 2 stoke oil when you fire the boat up at the boat ramp as the sun some is coming up?

The crappie, or walleye frying at camp with taters and onions!

It’s one of the best smells ever!!!

I was working on an old Johnson’s 3hp outside my shop one year. My daughter, around 10 at the time, was walking by just as I started the motor. She stopped in the thick cloud of blue smoke, took a deep smell and said “ahhhh Canada!”. LMAO.

A little blue smoke from the 2-stroke! Good livin'.

You are late, that is the time to go home!!!!!!

Reminds me of my brother in law that never owned a measuring cup..
The ol smoky warthog

how about the almost no smell and very minimal noise of my 4 stroke , I didn't think I would enjoy the 4 stroke as much as I do after all the years I spent with 2 stroke , I never much minded mixing but man it is so nice to top off at the pump on the way home and know it's ready to go again.

I used to keep a 5 gallon can and mix in the can and then fill the boat so I didn't have to guess at how much it was going to take , put 3 gallons in the 5 gallon can and mix for it



we used to spend days trolling on Michigan when I was a kid , my job was drive the boat while dad set lines.
used to get what I thought was sea sick and realized it was not sea sick as it only happened on days we were trolling with the waves , the breeze would blow the 2 stroke fumes up I was sitting below the windshield and that was trapping fumes in the cabin , soon as he switched to a 4 stroke Honda for a kicker I quit getting sick , it wasn't like puke sick it was a headache and it was only days that the wind was just so , often a bit colder with the center windshield closed up .
dad didn't get it because he was standing in the open getting fresh air.
I also didn't get it when my little brother was old enough to be driving and I was also setting lines in the back.

Smoke on the water Pete….

Nope on the 2 stroke, lol

I'll pass on the weight and needing the dealer on speed dial for something that I can fully tear down and fix myself.

Walking into work at 6am in the spring the suns just coming up and the birds are just starting in. I can't be in that situation without thinking about how I should be launching a boat at the boat ramp to go fishing instead.

Want a 4 stroke?, get a Honda, lighter than the others, quiet and pays for itself in fuel savings.....and they don't break...

I just replaced the Tohatsu motor on my boat for a Honda 4 stroke. A few things I've noticed right away is that the Honda is heavier, not as fast, and requires more maintenance than my old 2 stroke Tohatsu motor. The only reason I switched motors was that when I took the Tohatsu in for a tune up, it was hard to find parts for it and took a month to get a few minor parts. I wish I had stuck with a two stroke.

My 96 50HP Merc just got a tune up in the last couple of springs right before my boat place went out of business. She's a screamer and smells like a peach. Knock on wood. Yamaha Banshee is what a real two stroke smells like though. Blew a ignition coil a couple years ago going out across the lake. You feel like a delinquent trolling in. I was on a fancy high dollar ski boat once and they broke down. No oar. No trolling motor. A goofy anchor with about 50' of rope tied in a birds nest knot. Just drifting in 100' of water toward the rocks with a gel coat nicer than anything I ever owned. He was like what do I do? I had to jump up on the bow, wave someone down, and throw them a rope. Be prepared. I like running my old fishing boat and beaching her when I feel like it. Maybe I will get a four-stroke someday. Probably less ethanol issues. I just run my carb dry and park it.

Warm dog, dried marten skins, cottonwood buds, and I can probably think of a few others.

There are mark, but we can't say...

The smell of .22 rimfire firing. That's the one that gets me.

wws

I use Klotz in everything

Deisel exhaust fumes on a cold morning before sunrise does it for me. I stop and listen for cadence calls and almost feel like falling into formation, almost.

There is a better smell. Beaver castor in the morning..