Two Peas
Member
- Jun 24, 2008
- 914
- Boat Info
- 360DA 2002, Raymarine C80, SR50 Weather, Radome, DSC, Baltik 9'6" with 6hp Tohatsu
- Engines
- 8.1 Horizons w/V-Drives
On the recommendation of a fellow CSR'er, I invested about a hundred bucks in a set of Lifters from Maxi-Marine. You can get them on ebay as well as their website.
The verdict? They work. They work very well.
Performance on my 9.6 Baltik dink with Tohatsu 6hp four stroke was significantly improved. Without them I couldn't plane with anything in the dink but me. No trim setting on the motor would let me plane with one of my kids in the bow.
With them? We plane almost instantly. I'm very impressed and very pleased. The top speed with two of us (plus a full can of gas and probably 15 pounds of safety gear) was 15.7 mph on the Garmin GPS. Probably north of 300 pounds of people and gear, plus 55 lbs for the motor and 85 for the dink. Not bad for 6hp.
Here's a video shot from my Droid:
[youtube]4vndJZkfPOs[/youtube]
And here are a few pics:
The verdict? They work. They work very well.
Performance on my 9.6 Baltik dink with Tohatsu 6hp four stroke was significantly improved. Without them I couldn't plane with anything in the dink but me. No trim setting on the motor would let me plane with one of my kids in the bow.
With them? We plane almost instantly. I'm very impressed and very pleased. The top speed with two of us (plus a full can of gas and probably 15 pounds of safety gear) was 15.7 mph on the Garmin GPS. Probably north of 300 pounds of people and gear, plus 55 lbs for the motor and 85 for the dink. Not bad for 6hp.
Here's a video shot from my Droid:
[youtube]4vndJZkfPOs[/youtube]
And here are a few pics: