Used Honda BF250 250 HP Twin Pair — Freshwater, Matched Hours, Full Rigging

About this engine

Finding a matched pair of used Honda BF250s is hard. Finding one with freshwater history and 211 and 212 hours — a single hour apart, the way properly run twins should be — is the kind of listing twin-engine buyers wait whole seasons for. These are Honda's flagship V6s: 3,583cc, VTEC, PGM-FI, and the iST drive-by-wire system that gives silky, precise throttle and shift control at both helms' worth of stations.

Each engine makes 250 horsepower at 5,800 rpm with a 2.00:1 gearcase, and the charging system is serious offshore hardware — 90 amps total with 60 amps of charging output per engine, enough to run a full electronics suite, bait pumps and refrigeration without anxiety. At 617 pounds apiece they were built for exactly the 28- to 34-foot center consoles and cats that twin 250s call home.

The pair is serviced and ready to run, and the sale includes the full twin rigging package: controls, gauges, propellers and all installation cables. That completeness matters — piecing together a twin rigging kit separately is one of the most expensive surprises in a repower, and here it is simply included.

Running twins is about more than double horsepower. It is redundancy offshore, maneuverability at the dock that borders on the unfair, and the ability to plane on one engine if the day ever demands it. The BF250 pair adds Honda's refinements to that formula — iST drive-by-wire means both engines answer the helm with matched precision, and the matched 211/212-hour count tells you the previous owner ran them the way twins should be run: together, evenly, and maintained as a set.

For the repower budget, do the honest comparison: two new 250s, plus a twin rigging kit, plus props, lands in a different financial universe from this complete freshwater pair. That gap is the entire argument for this listing — flagship Honda twin power, complete and ready, for the price of staying patient and buying exactly the right used set.

Priced per pair at 22.5% below our researched market for a matched low-hour freshwater set, this is offshore repower math that rarely pencils out this well. If your hull is ready for quiet, efficient Honda twins, WhatsApp us before someone else's is.

Included with this engine

• Controls
• Gauges
• Propellers
• All installation cables

Good to know

Freshwater pair, serviced and ready to run (per seller). Sold as a matched pair, priced per pair.