Thread: Power boat for the young fulla

I have a 9.9 that used to plain with a 12ft tinny with 2 pob and all the nets and fish etc....

what type of boat are you looking at building? If it has a pontoon type construction 15 would be fun. down the pitch will up the take off but drop the speed but also let the motor over rev if they hold it hard open... if it was me I would keep the 15....but for my son 6-8hp as he would hold it pinned given half the chance


I have a mate that has a 40 on a deeper V 12ft tinny and its great but you wouldn't want to put that in the hands of someone who way want to use full throttle all the time as you could get in to trouble....big time as it gets rigth out of the water at speed.

If the young fulla is quite mature about speed it may be OK but ...... if not mmm not the best I guess