{"id":25911,"date":"2024-10-22T08:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T12:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=25911"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:49:05","slug":"first-s4-outing-with-the-9-9-hp-mercury-outboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/22\/first-s4-outing-with-the-9-9-hp-mercury-outboard\/","title":{"rendered":"First S4 Outing With The 9.9 hp Mercury Outboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Chris England<\/h5>\n<p><strong>South Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I finished reinforcing the transom for this 9.9 hp motor. First outing a success \/ was able to mount and dismount this heavy motor on my own.<br \/>\nNeed to make some adjustments but we didn\u2019t get splashed much even at full power. Total load was probably 550lbs &#8211; motor plus equipment plus me, son and daughter (425lb of passengers)<\/p>\n<p>Love this thing and a lot of people asking about it<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25915\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Young-passengers-on-board-S4-Microskiff.jpeg\" alt=\"Young passengers on board S4 microskiff\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Young-passengers-on-board-S4-Microskiff.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Young-passengers-on-board-S4-Microskiff-640x853.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Young-passengers-on-board-S4-Microskiff-150x200.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Young-passengers-on-board-S4-Microskiff-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25916\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-cruising-SC.jpeg\" alt=\"S4 microskiff cruising SC\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-cruising-SC.jpeg 2016w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-cruising-SC-640x480.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-cruising-SC-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-cruising-SC-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-cruising-SC-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-cruising-SC-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-cruising-SC-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25914\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-with-10-hp-outboard-docked.jpeg\" alt=\"S4 microskiff with 10 hp outboard docked\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-with-10-hp-outboard-docked.jpeg 2016w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-with-10-hp-outboard-docked-640x480.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-with-10-hp-outboard-docked-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-with-10-hp-outboard-docked-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-with-10-hp-outboard-docked-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-with-10-hp-outboard-docked-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/S4-microskiff-with-10-hp-outboard-docked-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"S4 Microskiff powered by 9.9 HP Mercury outboard and carrying three passengers on board\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rNSRIhvYG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris England South Carolina I finished reinforcing the transom for this 9.9 hp motor. First outing a success \/ was able to mount and dismount this heavy motor on my own. Need to make some adjustments but we didn\u2019t get splashed much even at full power. Total load was probably 550lbs &#8211; motor plus equipment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/22\/first-s4-outing-with-the-9-9-hp-mercury-outboard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First S4 Outing With The 9.9 hp Mercury Outboard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":25913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25911"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25949,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions\/25949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}