Some manufacturers offer pontoons with pre-fitted lifting strakes.

Add lifting strakes to pontoon. Its such a fine process like has been said get the exact strake and put in the exact location. Manitous lifting strakes work to not only create lift but also to make the. What happens to all the water displaced by the pontoons with lifting strakes.

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 our exclusive elliptical pontoons plus lifting strakes to your boat for incredible 2-tube performance easily achieving speeds around 30 mph with as little as 90 115 hp. Performance can be uplifted by choosing one of the available packages that can add a third tube and lifting strakes.

Lifting strakes provide lift by displacing water and raising the bow above the waterline. 2015 Qwest LS 818XRE Tri-toon wmercury 115. That simple extension can boost speeds anywhere between 15 and 25 depending on the model and size.

Lifting strakes are a little bulge of metal that goes on the bottom and sides of the pontoon. This creates a drag force that lowers the speed of the pontoon boat. I have a 2010 24 Bentley Encore pontoon that I recently repowered with a Merc 150 4 stroke.

The lifting action of the. This process reduces the drag. Many lifting strakes use negative angles which can generate lift but can hurt the quality of the ride due to increased slamming loads.

Tracker had these NV logs that would plane a 2 log toon with a 90 hp outboard but they used 6 inch wide strakes on both sides of the pontoon. All you have to do is install pontoon lifting strakes. I asked my dealer about adding on lifting strakes to my 22 pontoon SLi.