Suzuki DF250 Review

Fuelling Up

Though we're not quite there yet, it's probably just a matter of time before some UK small boaters start putting 'monster' outboards onto the backs of trailed and more especially, some of the smaller moored boats in the way that seemingly everyone does over on the other side of the Atlantic. My first planing boat had a 35 on the back which in the 1980's seemed huge. Then the trend crept up to 50 and later 60 hp. But now even our Warrior 175 with its Suzuki DF90 is starting to look under-gunned.

I recently saw one boat stateside with four 225's on the back. That's 900 hp ? a full order of magnitude more than we currently have. I've even boat fished guided freshwater trips there, one of which was on the surface water drainage canal system serving Miami, with 225 hp on the back, and we ran it back quite literally at full bore. So these smaller boats, in terms of size, could certainly take a lot more power than at present, though some would undoubtedly require transom construction adjustments to take the extra stress to comply with their guarantee.

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