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Anyone use a outboard after duck season to fish? Thinking I would like to go his route to save wear and tear on the GTR..

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Buddy has a 90 Yamaha on his 1754 G3, I'm sure something similar would be fine.

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Buddy of mine has a 90 Yamaha on a 17 excel and it will haul ass! But bounces a lot

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Put a 60 on it.


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60hp is exactly what I was thinking

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Even a 40 would get you good


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Slap a 90 on it with a jack plate so you can eliminate the bounce and run prolly mid-upper 40s


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Nexty question will prolly spark the same battle as of GTR/Prodrive but what brand yall running?

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I took the 35GTR off my last 1754 excel and put on a 60hp for a trip to Canada where I needed to run 20+ miles one way. It ran fine and pushed a heavy load. It turnd differently with the flat bottom and bounced if I turn sharper. I put the surface drive back on later that fall.

I wouldn't hesitate to do it again.

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Thanks for the info guys.... im now looking for a 60hp outboard to buy... Let me know if you see something that comes up for sale

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I got a 2010 50 Merc yesterday 4 stroke. I wasnt to happy with the maiden voyage. The boat barley got out of its own way and on step. Top speed was around 28-29 mph. I know props size and pitch are everything when it comes to outboards but without having a tack im shooting in the dark.. I was really hoping to get HIGH 30's loaded down with this set up. I might have hoped for to much. Any ideas on prop size for this set up? I took a mesurment and I got 10" by 15 pitch. 15p is stamped on the prop. This is the prop that came with the motor. If I cant get it right ill just sell being I got it for a great price and its a super clean motor

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That's a fact! I had a 16x60 welded bateau with 24" sides with a 75 evinrude at one time and I was lucky to get anything over 35 in it, and that was with a 17p prop. That GT boat is more boat to push than you would think!


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4 stroke. That's why. throw a 70 yammy 4 stroke and it'll run. I'm a merc 2 stroke man but yammy four stroke


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Ill change the prop and pitch first and see what I can get from it.

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Believe me I'm really surprised reguardless of 4 or 2 stroke

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should have got a 115 pro xs optimax

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Ran a 10.6 with less pitch today and nothing changed! The motor feels like it wants more at times. You can almost feel it take off for a sec but fall back off. Same speeds around 26-27mph. Something gotta be wrong with the motor. A guy in 25hp tiller passed me up in the canal!! Lol. Fuck my life!

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My fishing boat is a 17' deep V Lund with a 50 HP Merc 4-stroke tiller. It came with a 13 pitch prop and I went down to 12 (4 blade stainless) for better hole shot went loaded with three guys. BUT, that boat is 1,000 lbs dry, has a 27 gal fuel tank, 3 batteries, two large live wells, two trolling motors. Top speed is about 29mph (can hit 30 at times). I lost just a little on top speed going down to a 12 from a 13.

With your rig (should be much lighter), and the fact that you have a flat bottom that get's on plane faster, I would think you'd want at least a 13 pitch or higher.

With your 10.6 prop, are you instantley on plane?? Does the motor seem to rev high? Sounds like it's pitched way too low to me...

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I think you can get a little more out of this motor by removing a small air restrictor at the intake. I believe I remember seeing a post about this on another site about 2 or 3 years ago. Something about the ecu automatically sensing the increased airflow and recalibrating to a higher hp level--maybe 60ish hp. Might want to check into this before going about it blindly.


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Talked to Hoyt today he said ez'ly I should be pushing 40. Im goig to raise the motor to the highest setting and run both props and see

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Talked to Hoyt today he said ez'ly I should be pushing 40. Im goig to raise the motor to the highest setting and run both props and see

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Tried again today after we raised the motor to the highest setting and ran both props again. Still 25-28. FML. Calling baggy and bringing the motor back where I bought it.

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do you have a 20" shaft ob and a 20" transom??

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21" tran. 20" shaft

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x2 that man knows props and will get it right if the prop is the problem!

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baggy knows his props

i went from a 4 blade powertech 15pt to a 3 blade turbo 17pt... like a totally different boat

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What RPM are you running at your top speed TDUET?

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Easy quick fix! 3 cyl is blown in the motor. Going get my $$ back and going get a new one! Lol

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That would do it, lol.


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