How fast your toon go?

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So I was asking people on the chain this past weekend how fast their pontoon went.

28ish Bennington with twin 250 Yamahas - 52 mph
27ish Crest? with twin 300 Evinrude - 70 mph
26ish Bennington with 350 Yamaha - 51 mph
26ish Manitou with 300 Evinrude - 49mph

So I feel like the 70mph guy was just stroking his dick with his boat load of people. 70mph is FLYING. But I also feel like the others should have a bit more? Maybe the boats had a load of people on them at those speeds or had the canopy up? They were all pretty similar. All of the boats sampled were tritoons.

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So I was asking people on the chain this past weekend how fast their pontoon went.

28ish Bennington with twin 250 Yamahas - 52 mph
27ish Crest? with twin 300 Evinrude - 70 mph
26ish Bennington with 350 Yamaha - 51 mph
26ish Manitou with 300 Evinrude - 49mph

So I feel like the 70mph guy was just stroking his dick with his boat load of people. 70mph is FLYING. But I also feel like the others should have a bit more? Maybe the boats had a load of people on them at those speeds or had the canopy up? They were all pretty similar. All of the boats sampled were tritoons.

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I think most people don’t take the time to set it up right, 50 is hauling the mail for a toon so people don’t try other props, most of the motors are set up very deep they would need a jack plate to see max performance out of it, id you search around on forums there are guys going in the 60’s with 250hp set up right depends on the toon design also, I saw a toon hit low 70’s with a single 400 at the shootout a couple years back
 

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You think they have limiters?

My dads 22 Bennington with a 175 Yamaha does 45 on GPS with just me in it on calm water. 17 pitch stainless 4-Blade. I forgot the exact WOT RPM but looks like 5-10% slip.

The motors have rpm limiters, you can feel it when it hits the limiter, all the motors have a wot operating range say 5000 to 5500 where you prop that to land makes a big difference
 

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So I was asking people on the chain this past weekend how fast their pontoon went.

28ish Bennington with twin 250 Yamahas - 52 mph
27ish Crest? with twin 300 Evinrude - 70 mph
26ish Bennington with 350 Yamaha - 51 mph
26ish Manitou with 300 Evinrude - 49mph

So I feel like the 70mph guy was just stroking his dick with his boat load of people. 70mph is FLYING. But I also feel like the others should have a bit more? Maybe the boats had a load of people on them at those speeds or had the canopy up? They were all pretty similar. All of the boats sampled were tritoons.

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weight slows down pontoons a fuck ton.

like those boats are crazy heavy for a pooontoon.

the fiberglass side pontoons are especially heavy.


i also 100% doubt 70 mph
 

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The guy with the shootout boat had it listed for sale a few weeks or so back. $60k with 2 300's iirc. It was still rigged for 3. Not sure if it sold or not.
He also had an older model with 2-250 Promax's on it that was for sale a couple months ago, low $50's - he said it ran 72 iirc...had a lot of the same stuff done as the shootout boat - jackplates, coated toons, etc...
 

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I know there heavy but I think with 600hp 70mph is believable

if it was a cat or something, sure but the twin poontoons just don't run as well as you'd think.

i've yet to see a twin engine test with an impressive number really.



manitou with twin new 400r's hit 71 mph...

https://www.manitoupontoonboats.com/how-fast-is-a-pontoon-boat/

What does all this mean for the tritoon’s speed? Well, with an average horsepower of about 165, our boats reach speeds of around 35 to 40 mph on average. And our 27 X-Plode XT SHP, a new length for 2018, recently reached 71 mph when equipped with two Mercury Racing 400R engines.



twin 300hp g2 etecs on a 27' manitou normal width at 8'6"
58.5 mph- manitou makes a really lightweight boat too

https://www.evinrude.com/content/da...2-Twin-300-HP-Manitou-270-Xplode-SRW-2017.pdf


twin 300hp g2 etecs on a 25' manitou normal width

62.1 mph

https://www.evinrude.com/content/da...win-300-HP-Manitou-Xplode-XT25-iDock-2017.pdf

twin 300 g2's on a 27' manitou 63 mph

https://www.evinrude.com/content/da...3-G2-Twin-300-27-Manitou-Xplode-RFXW-2018.pdf




twin 300 yamaha on a 29 10' wide premier 52mph

https://www.yamaha-motor.ca/assets/...GrandViewPTXtwin_t_F300XCA_2014-04-25_PNT.pdf
 

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the most interesting setup to me are the eliptical twin pontoon benningtons and similar...

without the center toon, they seem to run quite a bit better than comparable tritoons...

48.2 mph out of a 200 on a twin ellipitical boat (no center)

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42.3 out of a 150 on a twin elliptical

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if it was a cat or something, sure but the twin poontoons just don't run as well as you'd think.

i've yet to see a twin engine test with an impressive number really.



manitou with twin new 400r's hit 71 mph...

https://www.manitoupontoonboats.com/how-fast-is-a-pontoon-boat/





twin 300hp g2 etecs on a 27' manitou normal width at 8'6"
58.5 mph- manitou makes a really lightweight boat too

https://www.evinrude.com/content/da...2-Twin-300-HP-Manitou-270-Xplode-SRW-2017.pdf


twin 300hp g2 etecs on a 25' manitou normal width

62.1 mph

https://www.evinrude.com/content/da...win-300-HP-Manitou-Xplode-XT25-iDock-2017.pdf

twin 300 g2's on a 27' manitou 63 mph

https://www.evinrude.com/content/da...3-G2-Twin-300-27-Manitou-Xplode-RFXW-2018.pdf




twin 300 yamaha on a 29 10' wide premier 52mph

https://www.yamaha-motor.ca/assets/...GrandViewPTXtwin_t_F300XCA_2014-04-25_PNT.pdf

Twin 300’s on a similar size cat will run well over 100, I figured the crest was a tri toon I didn’t think a pontoon would handle the weight of a pair of 300’s, I could see it being slower without the center toon
 

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Twin 300’s on a similar size cat will run well over 100, I figured the crest was a tri toon I didn’t think a pontoon would handle the weight of a pair of 300’s, I could see it being slower without the center toon

the crest is a tritoon



the larger center toons seem to slow down pontoons honestly.

they ride better and bank into turns but are slower.

my dad's pontoon runs similar top speeds to [MENTION=16]PANDA[/MENTION]'s and [MENTION=340]Eagle[/MENTION]s with a 225 same length, but larger center toon.
 

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70 seems like bullshit. In the research I have done the Suncatcher I have been looking at is a 22' tri-toon. You can option up to a 250 V-max but anything over a 200 will get the boat to 40. Suncatcher welds fins to the outside toons so it doesn't pitch when turning, maybe that also helps with top speed. :dunno:
 

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the crest is a tritoon



the larger center toons seem to slow down pontoons honestly.

they ride better and bank into turns but are slower.

my dad's pontoon runs similar top speeds to [MENTION=16]PANDA[/MENTION]'s and [MENTION=340]Eagle[/MENTION]s with a 225 same length, but larger center toon.

Does it have lifting strakes? It should lift more and have less drag if done right if it’s just three round toons then yeah it’s not going to help a lot, my dads crest had them but it was an option he requested
 

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Does it have lifting strakes? It should lift more and have less drag if done right if it’s just three round toons then yeah it’s not going to help a lot, my dads crest had them but it was an option he requested

lifting strakes seem to be standard across most major manufacturers for engine sizes above 200hp.
 

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70 seems like bullshit. In the research I have done the Suncatcher I have been looking at is a 22' tri-toon. You can option up to a 250 V-max but anything over a 200 will get the boat to 40. Suncatcher welds fins to the outside toons so it doesn't pitch when turning, maybe that also helps with top speed. :dunno:

doesn't pitch while turning? like roll?

if anything rolling into turns is a good thing
 

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the most interesting setup to me are the eliptical twin pontoon benningtons and similar...

without the center toon, they seem to run quite a bit better than comparable tritoons...

48.2 mph out of a 200 on a twin ellipitical boat (no center)

bqnhcjT.png


42.3 out of a 150 on a twin elliptical

Rx1yAr3.png
Air Temp 38. Lol winter tooning. Dat DA tho...
 

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overall, i really think the balance comes from balancing weight/drag and engine size...

like i posted there, that 150 powered boat is running 42... with that math, 300-350hp powered boats should be running 60+ but they aren't...

but that 150 powered boat is only 2500 lbs and barely has any running surface.

not having a center toon i bet allows the pontoon to act as a cat and pack some air unlike the large tritoon boats that has that space occupied by a toon.
 
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