On my 10ft dingy 15hp is the max recommended by the manufacturer. Any more
would be dangerous without substantial weight in the front. If I gun it
with just me in the boat, and I hit a small wave, I can almost flip it.
(I've flipped a dingy. It's kind of scary.) Plus, the weight of a 40-50hp
would make the boat permanently run nose up.

But let those folks keep tooling around with their 40 or 50hp engines. We
need a little chlorine in the gene pool. :-)

TT


"Garth Almgren" wrote in message
...
Around 9/11/2005 6:02 PM, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

Hi,

I've just bought a 9.5ft inflatable, and I'm wondering what's the
minimum power I need to get it to plane with 2 adults (say 400lb total)
on
board?

Dunno about the minimum, but there are several 10' inflatables running
around the Port of Everett with 40 or 50 HP... Talk about overkill.


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