Evinrude weighs their engines as they ship and the Merc is weighted without its heavy cowling, which the Evinrude doesn’t really have so it is a little closer than the numbers suggest. A smarter person than I can calculate range by the extra 3 MPH, but I’m not too worried about it. That’s pretty good given the weight and equipment. A real world test would be great. In effect, the 175 being run slightly deeper, running a larger diameter prop and only running 50 more RPM makes sense. With a Yamaha Pro Series™ prop: 14 1/2 x 23, the Bass Cat hit 62 at 6050 RPM.

This is in large part to the lower gears on the Evinrude.

This test had little information in way of setup, so difficult to know where it could improve.What is the final word based on the tests above? This just proves how critical setup, prop selection and the right engine is. Decent on the slugging Ranger. This is a performance bulletin directly from Mercury but there is one discrepancy we will have to work around. If this had the 1.86 gear ratio that the bigger G2s have, it would most likely be a better all around performer than the others, moving it up the list. Both the Mercury and Yamaha are really strong 150s. Keep in mind the Yamaha boat had one extra person in it and heavier test weight of 2864 Lbs. include your setup config too please. Also fast enough to get me to where I … I usually do about 36 at 3/4 throttle. The 150 25” Fury combo is seeing 9.55% slip. In fact, the very same boat may well weigh 10 or even 20 percent more … Details are vague but they say transom height on the 150 Pro is 4”, and 5.5” for the 175 ProXS. I attribute at least 5 or 6 MPH to the gear ratio, and the rest to the power increase. I'm getting 34 mph (gps) and that is fast enough to put bugs in my teeth. You might try using a 24” Tempest, even dropping just over 100 RPM, but possibly changing a few things, you could probably get 66 to 67 MPH and then it makes sense.

How fast does your tracker go ?

Just like any other vehicle, pontoon boats have speed limitations for very good reasons – both due to safety hazards and actual physical limitations.

These heavy bass boats aren’t all that fast. Both engines are probably well above their listed HP rating.

Let’s see how a competitive 150 does on the same boat. The extra weight works against it a little bit, but the integrated steering is sweet, and when you weigh fully rigged engines, the weight isn’t as big a difference. I believe Nitro revised this boat in 2019 as the latest model is 2” wider. Prop is whatever came standard on the engine. Something isn’t right about that setup.

No jack plate and the only thing it says about setup is the engine is mounted on the #4 hole, which isn’t helpful. Third, but not necessarily least is the G2 150 HO. With a 2:1 gear ratio, running a 21” prop, you wonder if a 22” raised up one hole, or utilizing a jack plate could push it up to 57 or 58? You would need to run a 24” pitch prop to get the numbers you’d want out of the big 175. The 150 was mounted ¾” higher with 2” less setback. The 175 22” combo is seeing 7% theoretical slip. But it’s hard to say not actually driving or actually seeing the setup. The 2.8 4 cyl is actually based off the F200, which was introduced at the same time and not the F150 2.7L. Not all of these water sports require the same speed, though, and here’s the rule of thumb:As you can see, water sports generally require an average speed of 22mph (35km/h) in order to ensure maximum fun. I have a 17' Xpress Aluminum bass boat with a 1998, 90 HP Yamaha that will do (on a dead calm day) 47 MPH at WOT. Two questions: 1.

I wish I could find complete data with one on a Sabre but I couldn’t, so I’ll just get some data together that is close. Although it’s a smaller displacement than the others, the Yamaha is a 2.8L and the Mercury is a 3.0L; The G2 has two more cylinders firing on every stroke. The Yamaha is an excellent repower engine.Let’s see some numbers on a Bass Cat Sabre, an 18’1” bass boat weighing in at 1275 lbs. At first glance, that’s not good. This Nitro is not very fast compared to the Bass Cat above. With a 23” Tempest it ran 55.5 at 6000 RPM. Although both are pictured mounted directly on the transom, so the Nito must have serious built in setback. “Any boat can benefit from it, but the faster you go, the more you accentuate it,” said Craig Wilson, president of Wilson Custom Marine in Stuart, Florida, the blueprinting leader of the go-fast world. ArchiveUse of this site constitutes acceptance of our user agreement and