A nice 4-blade stern lifting pontoon prop could help.

Can you add lifting strakes to a pontoon. He installs them for several local boat dealers mostly for the big player at the Raystown. All you have to do is install pontoon lifting strakes. Made with This is sometimes due to lack of knowledge and other times it is the fact that they want to make a sale.

Read ahead to find out more about these. This boat has the elipitical toons with lifting streaks and a 90hp 4strok. Lifting strakes can be retrofitted to your pontoons but as mentioned earlier most new models will come equipped with them.

Hello all Jason from Louisiana. If you decide to add them to your current model youll of course want to make sure they are expertly positioned and that. 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.

Lifting strakes will improve your pontoons overall performance and handling thereby giving you greater control so yes they will be able to aid your pontoon in choppy waters. Some manufacturers offer pontoons with pre-fitted lifting strakes. It is important to bear in mind though that the angle at which the strakes are fitted will impact how efficiently they can support your boat in these conditions.

BTW you will likely have to re-prop after youre done. Adding another motor to your boat to increase horsepower can be an expensive proposition. What do lifting strakes do on a boat.

Since he is one of the highest volume Bennington dealers in Texas I took his word. That simple extension can boost speeds anywhere between 15 and 25 depending on the model and size. Pontoon boats are very poor performing things and strakes will improve you launch speed in regard to when youll get on plane but top speed nope.