Seafari 25 Conversion Thoughts on Power?

[GameOnSalmon]

Originally Posted by Bigshrimpin

That west coast seashore is way way more unforgiving than the east coast. Gotta have the kicker. 4 stroke kicker / trolling motors save a lot of fuel.

Bigshrimpin... Love that shot of the Oregon Coast there and yes I could not agree more... Lots of debate between one Big Engine vs Twins... Out here you seen a Lot of 225 and 250 Yamaha Engines the coastal crowd loves the 4 strokes.... On ocassion you see the big 2 bangers like the ox66 and the merc efi and the Etec 250 h.o.

Every last one of them will have a 8hp Yamaha High Thrust kicker or a 15 Hp Yamaha kicker with Extra Long shaft on them... The dreaded day you gotta come in from 15 miles out on the kicker sucks... but I am really leaning towards a 15 HP Yamaha Xtra Long High Thrust and a single 250 EFI or OX66 motor for now. I can get that done together for under 6,000 total...

Toss in a porta bracket and this should work... Huge difference between 17" of setback and 30" fixed bracket...

Unless someone chimes in with a great reason to forgo this I am going to end up being the Seafari 25' Pig Tester I guess....

Just so tough when there is no data on this boat to speak of outside of the I/O situation...

Appreciate the feedback my friend... Do you have any other Ideas?

Robert