Hello gentlemen,
I recently bought my first outboard fishing boat, a 1996 stratos 219F. It has a 1996 Evinrude Intruder 150 on it. Prop to pad is @ 6" or very close to it. Ive only had the boat out once but it hit 47mph with me (215lbs) and my brother in law (205lbs) and roughly 15 gallons of fuel, RPMS were 4600-4700 (which i feel is a little low) It has a OMC renegade 4 blade 13 1/2 x 25 on it. Im not very knowledgable on outboards as this is my first one, so im hoping i can get some help as far as getting the RPMS up and getting some more speed out of this boat. I will post pictures of current mounting set up. I would prefer to not go to a jack plate if at all possible. Am i ouf of my mind thinking this boat should run 55 or so ? also boat has good compression, and good spark, carbs were redone before i bought it, im just wondering if i have to much "grip" out of that prop with it that "deep" thanks for any help you can give me.
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