Indeed he is lucky. Every dinghy motor has a finite life. In the carribean salt water in charter service that life is harsh. The criteria a charter company uses as to when to replace a dink engine is the number of problems it is having on charters. Though they don't intentionally send one out with a motor they don't assume will work for a week, there are some that are "problems" that the manager will say when it doesn't work on a charter for say a third time SUmmer and requires a call, "that's it, I'm calling the owner and getting a new one. In 9 years of charter we replaced one 15 hp Yamaha and it was having some issues when we sold the boat.