No use adding any more power as it wont do any good.

Add lifting strakes pontoon boat. With motorboat combo you should benefit from strakes in theory. Adding lifting strakes is a relatively cheaper idea. Retro-fitting lifting strakes on a pontoon boat can help you in several different ways.

It even has a swim platform for some serene fun in water. Because lifting strakes give your boat some extra elevation they boost speeds by up to 25. This assumes a pretty low constant on a 15 ton full up load and 10 slip.

I have a 2010 24 Bentley Encore pontoon that I recently repowered with a Merc 150 4 stroke. We talked about how lifting strakes boost speeds by hoisting the boat just enough to get them over the waves. Thats where lifting strakes come in.

The company probably figured at that 150 will move the boat up to its hull speed. With strakes a pontoon becomes a planinf hull it moves over the top of the water instead of through it. The use of Lifting Strakes in your hull design.

And because of the popularity of pontoon boats on Lake Norman Evan decided to add two 2010 Sweetwater 2386 pontoons boats to his fleet this past summer both rigged with Yamaha 115hp four-strokes. The third pontoon that is being added has lifting strakes on both sides. These include 1.

Add lifting strakes to 24 Harris Floteboat. The only difference in the nearly identical pontoon boats-one has TAP Fins and the other has lifting strakes. Select use of Lift Strakes by making selection of the drop-down box on Input Screen 4 selecting One Strake Two Strakes Three Strakes or No Strakes.