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Originally Posted by BossHog
You would be surprised that a lot of 21-22ft boats do fine with 150s on them. Sometimes upgrading to a 200 only gets you a few mph faster and depending on the setup will burn a lot more gas. On most of the lighter hull boats a 150 is perfect unless your into the whole speed thing. Just an example I used to have a 22ft pathfinder and it ran real good with a 150 V-MAX upgraded to a 200 V-MAX and it did gain speed but my gas mileage went to way down. But with the heavier 21-22 footers yes they need at least 200s.
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The next logical step from a 150 would be a 225, not enough difference between 150/200. I don't see the need for mfg's to even make the 200 but there again they are trying to satisfy the boat mfg's. As with trucks, it is not the speed issue that I am concerned with it is the bottom end torque and RPM's needed to develop that torque.