2017 Mercury 50 HP 4-Stroke 25″ (L)

This 2017 Mercury 50 HP ELPTO pairs a four-stroke engine with a 25-inch shaft, logged at 74 hours, and comes described by the seller as used, like new, and freshly serviced.

Shaft length and what low hours do and do not tell you

A 25-inch shaft sits taller than a standard-height mount, so match it against your transom before ordering rather than assuming it will fit; getting this wrong leaves the propeller running either too deep or too shallow once the boat is underway. At 74 hours this engine has barely been broken in, and the seller reports it running well with no repainting done, made ready to mount and run rather than needing further work. Even a low number like this is worth pairing with a look at the water pump and fuel system once it reaches you, since hour counters can miss time spent idling at a dock.

What is included

Controls, electric start, and power trim come with this motor; steering and shift are run remotely rather than through a tiller fixed to the engine, so it suits a console-steered boat. It is finished in black and ready to mount once it reaches your boat, and because it runs as a four-stroke, day-to-day fueling is as simple as putting straight gasoline in the tank rather than mixing in oil beforehand. A buyer moving up from a smaller motor should still plan on matching the propeller to the boat's load and intended use once it is installed, since a propeller sized for one hull rarely performs the same way on another.