Re: gas milage and speed
This post looks familiar. Didn't you post this previously? I may be mistaken so here's the answer again. <br />Pontoon boats don't plane. They have displacement hulls. Every displacement hull has a characteristic hull speed based on waterline length. The boat will easily get up to hull speed (a 25ft displacement hull has a h.s. of about 7-10 mph) but, beyond that every 1 mph increase takes twice as much horsepower as the previous 1 mph. <br />When you apply a lot of HP to a displacement hull it tries to plane but never will. It is trying to climb a hill of water but never gets on top. <br />If you keep your boat off that hill you can probably drive it at hull speed with 40 HP and at modest RPM's that will get you great gas mileage to boot.<br />Charlie
