Road warrior, that's me now.  A couple weekends ago I went striper fishing.  This was the first time I've had mine in the water without a 1/2 dozen people in it.  It maxed out at 20.7 mph at 5,500 rpm.  That's also the first time I've had to motor full throttle.  Normally, it's 4,200 - 4,500 rpm and about 17mph when it's has it's normal load of people in it.   Does not good to run it any higher rpm, it burns a lot more gas and only gains a whopping 0.5 mph. 

When I went fishing, it was about 2 miles for the ramp to a section I was hoping the stripers were going to in.  Never thought much about that when I was in my Javelin, I pulled away from the dock, idled out of the no wake zone, hit the throttle and in I'm there in less than two minutes.  With that pontoon, it seemed like those two miles had grown to 10 and I was never going to get there.     

I fished a dock last weekend that had a lift with a pontoon on it.   About fell out of my yak when I got around the front of the dock and saw not one, but two 300s mounted on the stern.  Would have like to have seen that wot.....from a distance

2 hours ago, Choporoz said:

I fished a dock last weekend that had a lift with a pontoon on it.   About fell out of my yak when I got around the front of the dock and saw not one, but two 300s mounted on the stern.  Would have like to have seen that wot.....from a distance

I saw one being trailered down the highway with 3 400 hp motors 

7 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I saw one being trailered down the highway with 3 400 hp motors 

Bet this guy driving the tow rig ~

#pontoonimprovement

A-Jay