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MAX bottom width for 60/40?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tbradley" data-source="post: 419703" data-attributes="member: 9883"><p>Thanks dhoganjr! Your replies are what I was thinking on all the searching online and calls to the dealers. Yes the 60/40 is as big as I'd want to go with, it's a big jump from the Merc 25 hp 2 stroke (prop) I have now. I've read on your post that your thinking about pods on your next boat and would like to know how you like them when you get some time running them. Was thinking tunnel for the extra protection for the jet foot and the pods should help offset the loss of flotation of having the tunnel, but I've read that with just the addition of pods only the pods actually channel the water into kind of a tunnel like affect to allow the motor to be mounted a little higher anyway, not sure, but that would be great. I know there's a guy on the Outdoor Directory forum that has an Alweld 1752 flat bottom tunnel with pods that does great with a Tohatsu 50/35. He had the pods added aftermarket to help with stern squatting, probably due to the tunnel, but now it runs much better and he never hits his jet foot because of the tunnel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tbradley, post: 419703, member: 9883"] Thanks dhoganjr! Your replies are what I was thinking on all the searching online and calls to the dealers. Yes the 60/40 is as big as I'd want to go with, it's a big jump from the Merc 25 hp 2 stroke (prop) I have now. I've read on your post that your thinking about pods on your next boat and would like to know how you like them when you get some time running them. Was thinking tunnel for the extra protection for the jet foot and the pods should help offset the loss of flotation of having the tunnel, but I've read that with just the addition of pods only the pods actually channel the water into kind of a tunnel like affect to allow the motor to be mounted a little higher anyway, not sure, but that would be great. I know there's a guy on the Outdoor Directory forum that has an Alweld 1752 flat bottom tunnel with pods that does great with a Tohatsu 50/35. He had the pods added aftermarket to help with stern squatting, probably due to the tunnel, but now it runs much better and he never hits his jet foot because of the tunnel. [/QUOTE]
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