He mentioned they have added them in years past to boats not factory ordered with this option and performance was maybe a 1 mph.

Add lifting strakes pontoon boat. 2015 Qwest LS 818XRE Tri-toon wmercury 115. I have a 2010 24 Bentley Encore pontoon that I recently repowered with a Merc 150 4 stroke. I asked my dealer about adding on lifting strakes to my 22 pontoon SLi.

Performance can be uplifted by choosing one of the available packages that can add a third tube and lifting strakes. Add lifting strakes to 24 Harris Floteboat. Adding more power to a planing hull results in increased speed.

Lifting strakes lift your boat and reduce drag which can improve your speed by 15. We talked about how lifting strakes boost speeds by hoisting the boat just enough to get them over the waves. Since he is one of the highest volume Bennington dealers in Texas I took his word.

The only difference in the nearly identical pontoon boats-one has TAP Fins and the other has lifting strakes. It even has a swim platform for some serene fun in water. The strakes welded directly onto the pontoons produce lift at the bow by displacing water allowing the boat to in essence glide above the water rather than lumber through it.

The third pontoon will be shorter so as to stay 6 away from the motor pod in order to prevent cavitation. By ron nh Sun Jun 14 2015 1206 pm. The only thing that improves pontoon boat speed is more power.

The company probably figured at that 150 will move the boat up to its hull speed. These include 1. Adding another motor to your boat to increase horsepower can be an expensive proposition.