Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:23:56 GMT, "HankCoen"
wrote:
I am not running a older OMC Johnson it's a newer Suzuki 25. it may sit in
the water just right with this motor, the pitch of the prop may be just
right, and possibly the lake was too calm when I ran the test, all I know is
it just ran great and better than I expected.I'm sorry you guys don't
believe me.
Like I said, I'll take you at your word.
But...
I have a 14 foot Princecraft Yukon with a 2005 Johnson carbed two
stroke with a non-standard prop. With me, 150 pounds of gear, a
transom mount transducer and stern mounted trolling motor, I can just
barely turn 25 mph. That's with a strong tail wind.
So there you go.
There's also the fact that speedometers tend to be inaccurate.
Check your speed with a GPS unit and you will probably find that
it's not quite 32 mph. If so, that's not lying, that's an
inaccurate speedometer.
I know when I took my eighteen year old grandson out for the
first time he said, "We've got to be going 40, at least." The
GPS said 20.
-Raf
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