First, please understand that I have no dog in this fight. I was asked by a friend to test this rig and give my opinion, on Friday I did. Monday and Tuesday, I was used as a consultant to test the same outboard on a prototype hull for a manufacturer from Arkansas, that I did also and gave him some changes to make to his hull..Thanks to Gerald and Kyle at Lake Area Marine, I was able to test the new Tohatsu 40hp 4 stroke this past Friday, Monday, and Tuesday. It is a beast. It is a 208 pound, 3 cylinder, EFI, 53 cubic inch, 2.08:1 geared, stump pulling beast. We tested it Friday on an AlWeld 1548, nice boat, performed flawlessly. Has a tremendous hole shot, great top end, strong water pump system, and is nice to look at. Has a nice long tiller, shift in the tiller handle, trim in the tiller, key switch in the tiller, very ergonomic. Makes 25 pounds of water pressure at WOT, was pushing the AlWeld in the low to mid 40's with my big butt in it, on the 6150 rpm rev limiter. We dropped 2 mph adding another man, not bad. We could have put a race prop on the motor and produced big high numbers that are totally useless to the average hunter or fisherman, that was not our goal. The boat handled very well, I like the design with ribs under the floor but not up the sides. Boat is .100 gauge, stout, AlWeld has finally built a nice looking, FAST hull. As for new 40hp Lacassine motors, this is it. Lake Area has a load of these coming in mid-April.
Here's a pic of the rig, and a video of the hole shot with a 16 pitch prop.
and a top end run
04-03-2014, 06:45 AM
New King of Lacassine
Threaded Mode