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Posted 8/23/2001 4:00 PM (#11127)
Subject: Can you justify NOT maxing out HP?

The trailer should definitely be a bunk model on that hull. Buy a good trailer, too many times the trailer becomes a 'stepchild' and gives one grief later. I would recommend Trailmaster/Vanguard.

I would not worry about hole shot and a 115, the hole shot is a function of the correct prop, not horsepower at 76% of the power curve. If top end is not a real concern, the 115 would do a great job.

I have a 225 on my Tuffy 1990 Esox Deep V, which weighs only 1400#, and the hole shot was terrible with a 25 pitch 4 blade, and really GREAT with a 23 Pitch 3 blade. The 25 was faster, but only by a couple miles an hour.