those are high dollar motors. I wonder why they chose the verrados. I sold mercury's this past summer and we never sold a verrado. Most people look at them and decide they arent worth the money because you can get more power out of cheaper motors, and i would assume that for a work boat, being quiet and smooth wouldnt matter. interesting
Interestingly it does have ballast tanks well there are not ballast tanks the hull has separate compartments (kinda like the Titanic) so if a barge rips a hole in the boat the leak is confined to that compartment and of course each compartment has its own pump..........hmmm a little plumbing change and we might have something :-)
I still hate how they tried to copy the X-Star. They should try and design something unique and not something that is basically a carbon copy of the X-Star.