I have seen 100 HP Mariner tiller steers on two different boats now. One was a
large jon "work" boat on the Mississippi River. The other was a Lund (or maybe
a Sylvan) walleye boat on the Illinois River. I have personally operated my
friend's 60 HP tiller and there was very little pull from the prop when
accelerating. It had decent instrumentation - internal speedo, tach, temp, and
voltage that were mounted on the side of the boat.

Dan


Jim wrote:
Joseph,

I'm familiar with that rule of thumb, but, a) I personally can't
imagine using a tiller motor of that size, and b) now that I see
he's posted the specs on the boat, it's much bigger overall than
I was imagining.

-Jim


Joseph Stachyra wrote:

Rule of thumb if a boat is rated for 80hp then take 80percent of that
number and that would be the average for your boat, and it looks like
a 60
to 65hp would be the ticket