Don't do it nedarb2, it's not worth it. I brought a F250 Yamaha back across from North Carolina last year and it was 18 months old and had 182 hours on it. I thought this is great, this motor should give me a a couple seasons minimum, and I had it inspected, sea-trialed, the whole deal.
At 282 hours, 24 miles off of Beale this motor blows up. After some expensive efforts to get it into Breakers in Port I find this out that it's a valve spring and it's cause...faulty metal, nothing you could do to prevent it, just a freak accident and if it happened in the states complete warranty from start to finish.
I called Yamaha and they told me I am SOL because of the whole CDN/US ******** that the dealers have going with each other, which is complete crap because these motors are exactly the same and made in the same place regardless if you buy them here or there...just political ********.
They said the only way they would consider it was if I had all of the repair work done by a certified Yamaha dealership, and even then no guarantees.
So I do it and 6k later Yamaha says sorry no dice. How's that for service and backing up your product? 282 hours and a god-damned valve spring. Bunch of no good ******s. I hope Yamaha ****s the bed and everyone switches to Suzuki's.
Don't do it, buy local and support our guys, I tried to get ahead of the curve and save some bucks and buy down there and got screwed. Don't make the same mistake I did.