New to the forum, but been lurking for about a month now.
Got a question about the speed of my boat. It's a 12 ft v hull
not sure of the make but started out running a 2.5 Nissan and
averaged about 4 to 5 mph fully loaded which is my wife 7 year old
daughter,me, tackle boxes ,poles,2 coolers, trolling motor
and battery.Now I've got a 64 Johnson sea horse 5.5 that I just
Went trough and runs perfect but only getting about 5 to 6 mph
out of it and the only extra weight is the fuel tank which is a 3 gallon.
At this point I've tried a few things to gain speed like trimming engine
both ways but nothing changed, even by myself it really don't seam much
faster. Just seems like I should have gotten a little more speed out of it
considering the nissian 2.5 was about the same speed. The engine does have
a home made hydrofoil on it which I was going to remove and see if
That helps. Just curious if any one is running something similar and what
there speed is or if there is something I'm missing.
Posting using my phone so I apologize Thanks tw
Got a question about the speed of my boat. It's a 12 ft v hull
not sure of the make but started out running a 2.5 Nissan and
averaged about 4 to 5 mph fully loaded which is my wife 7 year old
daughter,me, tackle boxes ,poles,2 coolers, trolling motor
and battery.Now I've got a 64 Johnson sea horse 5.5 that I just
Went trough and runs perfect but only getting about 5 to 6 mph
out of it and the only extra weight is the fuel tank which is a 3 gallon.
At this point I've tried a few things to gain speed like trimming engine
both ways but nothing changed, even by myself it really don't seam much
faster. Just seems like I should have gotten a little more speed out of it
considering the nissian 2.5 was about the same speed. The engine does have
a home made hydrofoil on it which I was going to remove and see if
That helps. Just curious if any one is running something similar and what
there speed is or if there is something I'm missing.
Posting using my phone so I apologize Thanks tw