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| Completely understand about wanting to keep your hours down but there's always a tradeoff. Now you're hanging 100 or so extra pounds off the transom of a heavy boat that's only got 115 ponies on the back. She's going to be pretty doggy out of the hole. Also have to add in the extra cost of the kicker. I don't know how you fish or what your intentions are for keeping the boat long term, but trolling hours in the used market aren't a big deal and the newer 4 strokes are designed to be run into thousands of hours now. The boat is underpowered with a 115, but most certainly very fishable. What I mean by weight sensitive is you have to be careful where you distribute weight in that boat because it's limited to a lower HP. An extra battery and or a kicker on the back might affect how the boat runs, depending on how much other weight and gear you have in the boat. I've never noticed any porpoising issues but having that kicker on the back isn't going to help in that department. I also don't think there will be a significant difference in performance/noise between a 9.9 and 15. | |
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