Who needs a mud motor.....

[scott craft]

Originally Posted by fishaholic82

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.

[fishaholic82]

Yeah it runs great but its got a lot of mods. We just wanted a better throttle response when we first started modding it but the extra speed was addictive and we wound up going further than we originally we thought we would go with it.