28' Pontoon with 3.0 Mercruiser Prop

airshot

Vice Admiral
Joined
Jul 22, 2008
Messages
5,979
Cost was not mentioned , and a few hundred more in the boating world is pocket change . Pontoon slipped next to me does 55 mph. Not bad for a " barge " is it ? Yep , he runs a SS prop , told me he gained a few mph over aluminum as the mfg can do more tweaking with a SS prop over aluminum . And the SS have hubs in them , so when you hit something the hub gets blown out ,before transferring that hit to the prop shaft . The SS will take small hits with nary a mark vs Aluminum that gets bent with the lightest of hits . To each there own , you think aluminum is better then stick with them . I will stick with my SS and Nibral props , thank you .
If you read my comment, I mentioned performance cases were the exception....55 mph is certainly a performance case ! A pontoon doing 20 mph is not considered high performance by any means. We have numerous pontoons in our area, one guy has a tuition with 3 250hp out boards and yes he has SS props, all custom made. But the pontoon docked next to him has an old 50 up two stroke with usually 6 or more people with them, no performance worth the cost of a fancy SS prop there.
 

jlh3rd

Master Chief Petty Officer
Joined
Jul 10, 2017
Messages
821
why not go all out and get the sharrow...🫤
 

Attachments

  • IMG_5031.png
    IMG_5031.png
    2 MB · Views: 1
Top