Top Speed?

[anchor man]

I don't have enough patience to wait for some open water to find out the performance of my new 1700 Lund Fisherman with Yamaha 4-stroke F150 on. It has a 14 1/4 x 21 Hustler prop on it. Does anyone have the same/similar set up? If so, what should I expect for handling and top end?

Thanks

[leechlake]

this may help. I have a 1800 pro V IFS with a 175 yam hpdi vmax, stainless prop. It goes 58-61 mph. That's using the speed on the depth finder, I can't remember the gps speed and the speedometer on the boat shows higher. That's with two guys in it and I have a kicker also. The point is it goes fast and that hull should, more importanlty, enable you to go in bouncy conditions also. Doesn't do much good to go 50 it your passenger is almost flying out of the boat...

[marine_man]

I don't have the rig you mention, but based on experience and water tests I'd say you could expect high 40's to low 50's out of it... probably closer to the low 50's end though..

That's presuming it's propped to get the best performance (running toward the upper end of the RPM specs)

Should be a nice rig...

marine_man

[bmc2b]

I have an '04 1700 fisherman with a 140hp johnson 4 stroke with an aluminum 13 1/4 x 21 prop. I can go 48 lightly rigged or 42-44 fully rigged.

[leechlake]

anchorman, go to yamaha outboards HSOforum and you can pull up a peformance bulletin, you put in the motor size and pick an aluminum boat that is close to yours (they don't list lund on their) and it will give you a chart with speed, fuel consumption at different rpm's. It's all right there.

[anchor man]

leechlake,

thanks, I checked that out before and just thought I'd see if any Lund Fishermann owners had any input since it didn't list those. Another area I wasn't sure about was the prop size. You see a lot of 13 1/4 and 13 3/4, but having a 14 1/4 dia. prop, I didn't know if this would make a big difference. I'm brand new to the scientific side of things. With the old boat it was just, fire it up and push the lever.

thanks again

[Lund4ver]

I have a 2003 1700 fisherman, with a 135 Merc Opti, and 9.9 kicker, and with the wife, two sons, and myself I can manage top end of about 53 mph on the water. Alot has to do with the trim angle that you are running at as well, just something you have to play with with different amounts of weight in the boat.

[Fisher Dave]

Why does a fishing boat have to go 45-60 mph unless your in a tournament?

I guess it would be useful if your on the river *down south* and trying to bounce Asian Carp off the windshield, or seeing how many bugs you can get stuck in your hair and teeth per mile.

Just to think, most boats used to be able to handle a days fishing with a single 6 gallon gas can.

[Lund4ver]

Why does a boat have to go 45-60 MPH? Because there are some of us that want to cover large areas of water quickly to get the spots that are "out of the way" where a six gallon gas can and 5 hour boat ride won't get you.

Honestly, my 136 Merc Opti is very easy on gas, even with it being a two stroke motor, because it is fuel injected, I only fill my boat up typically once a summer, and that is because I run on big lakes, and don't like to stay in one spot if the fish aren't biting. But that is just me.

[Fisher Dave]

Lund .. I was only joking, not critisizing(sp?)

I know the newer motors are way more fuel efficient than the old motors, and I understand as much as anyone else, and more than others the need to cover water at times...

I can remember some of them *old days* out there with two, six gallon cans and sputtering out on a couple different occasions on Millacs just before I got to the access.

I just dont understand why 98% of people who run a big motor have to run full throttle no matter how short the distance is... motor will last a bit longer running 4000 rpm's vs 5300 rpm's..

As for the speed, I can really care less as long as the person is being respectable to other boaters and fishermen. I have had a couple Rangers fly by me on Tonka within 30'... that is bothersome, but I have had big bayliners do it too throwing *tidal waves* at me... theres always going to be a few out there that lack common sense.