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<blockquote data-quote="bobberboy" data-source="post: 108809" data-attributes="member: 1417"><p>With just me and all my stuff it's great, with two in the boat, not as good. The plate for my boat says the max hp is 10, so I'm basically at max. I have raised the motor up 2" from its original position per advice from crazymanme2 to get the cavitation plate level with the bottom of the boat. It made a big difference but I have still to do some fine-tuning. I assume as your boat is wider that it could take a bigger motor. If there is no plate on the boat listing the recommended hp, go to the USCG web site. There is a document published by the Coast Guard for boat builders that includes a formula based of a couple of factors and you should be able to figure out the appropriate hp. If you can't find it let me know, I may have squirreled it away somewhere - it's in a PDF format. There are a lot of guys on this site that know a lot about motors (I'm not one of them). Maybe you should post your question on either the boats or motors forum. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobberboy, post: 108809, member: 1417"] With just me and all my stuff it's great, with two in the boat, not as good. The plate for my boat says the max hp is 10, so I'm basically at max. I have raised the motor up 2" from its original position per advice from crazymanme2 to get the cavitation plate level with the bottom of the boat. It made a big difference but I have still to do some fine-tuning. I assume as your boat is wider that it could take a bigger motor. If there is no plate on the boat listing the recommended hp, go to the USCG web site. There is a document published by the Coast Guard for boat builders that includes a formula based of a couple of factors and you should be able to figure out the appropriate hp. If you can't find it let me know, I may have squirreled it away somewhere - it's in a PDF format. There are a lot of guys on this site that know a lot about motors (I'm not one of them). Maybe you should post your question on either the boats or motors forum. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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