I have no insight other than I bought a new Alumacraft Navigator 165T this year. The dealer had a F60 bolted on it which concerned me but the deal was good so I bought it and had him put on a Yamaha 12″ prop per the Yamaha performance bulletins. Well, the short of the story is I talked myself into trading that new F60 for a F75 with Merten (Enginesteer) power steering before I even had it in the water. The new F75 isn’t broken in yet but runs awesome on that boat. I had them put a Yamaha 15″ aluminum prop on it for now even though they wanted to put on a 17. I tested one last Summer with a 17 and it had enough grunt to pull 3 men to 6000 rpm. Now for my 15, it is “quick”, out of the hole !!! I have only tested WOT 1 time so far but it easily pulled to 6000 and the GPS on the HB 998 read 34.8mph, with full tank of fuel and 2 men onboard. I have been told by the dealer it will gain some RPM as it breaks in so I might buy another prop (17) for normal loads and save this 15 for heavy loads when I fish the river in Winter with 3 guys onboard. It’s a sweet engine and the power steering makes it absolutely awesome to control.
I don’t think you’ll be happy with the F60 because the displacement is still only 1000cc whereas the F75 is almost 1600cc. I do admit, the F60 would be a dream for trolling.
