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Old 01-18-2012, 12:18 AM
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Originally Posted by fishaholic82 View Post
Achieving higher speed with surface drives has a lot to do with the boat as well as the motor. It needs to have a flat smooth bottom with longitude ribs. Our gatortail rig runs 32 with 2 guys, a dog, and all our gear. The motor is modded though. Stock it ran about 27 with the same load. Between the lilies, grass, and mud where we hunt a typical water cooled outboard would make it halfway to our blinds!
That's pretty good speeds. Those gator-tails sure are nice.
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