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Help Please - Maximum HP Outboard for my Sea King
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<blockquote data-quote="Tinny Fleet" data-source="post: 436683" data-attributes="member: 22140"><p>My first trailered boat was one of those Sea Kings, back when I knew way more of what just wasn't right. I started with a 1957 18 HP Evinrude, then and later put a brand new 1984 25 HP Johnson on the thing with my newspaper route earnings, and ranged up and down the east coast with it from Santee Cooper to the Canadian border. Ran like a banshee. Sunk it once under the Bay Bridge outside of Annapolis, when a wave came in over the transom as I was backing it against the tide rip toward the pilings jigging for rockfish. Bottom line, that was way too much motor. Somehow I survived. 15 hp is tops, probably even a little too strong. Comfortable would be a 9.9.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tinny Fleet, post: 436683, member: 22140"] My first trailered boat was one of those Sea Kings, back when I knew way more of what just wasn't right. I started with a 1957 18 HP Evinrude, then and later put a brand new 1984 25 HP Johnson on the thing with my newspaper route earnings, and ranged up and down the east coast with it from Santee Cooper to the Canadian border. Ran like a banshee. Sunk it once under the Bay Bridge outside of Annapolis, when a wave came in over the transom as I was backing it against the tide rip toward the pilings jigging for rockfish. Bottom line, that was way too much motor. Somehow I survived. 15 hp is tops, probably even a little too strong. Comfortable would be a 9.9. [/QUOTE]
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