Kris Winiarski
Member
Last year I picked up a 13' aluminum rib inflatable with a 20hp honda that has turned out to be a great boat for me and my three young boys to explore the Chesapeake Bay. With a couple adults or myself and my three young boys it easily gets up on plane and it cruises around 20kts, which is plenty fast for a 13' boat. Unfortunately, once you add a little more weight it struggles to get up on plane (max payload on the boat is 1200lbs). I tried dropping the pitch on the prop and that helped a bit but still feels a bit underpowered. Do you think a 3 cylinder 30hp motor would be night and day compared with the 2 cylinder 20hp honda and it would no longer be sensitive to weight getting up on plane? I would probably be adding 50 or 60lbs in weight. That honda I believe weighs about 110lbs and most 30hp motors are ~170lbs (manual start and no trim). The pic I attached is my model boat but has a 30hp yamaha 2 stroke, which I'm sure would be an awesome motor for it, but I'm not sure I want to go back to a two stroke. This thing looks like an all aluminum TDB with the tubes deflated and removed. My other issue is that I keep on getting outfished by a six year old, but I don't think anyone can help me there. [/url]View attachment page_content_image_0109.jpeg[/url][/url]View attachment IMG_20211023_172843049_HDR.jpg[/url][/url][/url][/url]