I am buying a bass boat because I am an avid fisherman and was wondering if it is possible to pull a skier or a tube or something with it. It has a mercury 115 outboard motor and the boat is 16 ft long. Any thoughts?
2007-07-31 09:41:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
What you run into with bass boats is the high performance setups they can have. For example, a high ratio prop or the motor is lifted up a couple of inches off the transom...or both. This would cause the boat to have a very high top end speed, but "out of the hole", the prop would cavitate. Not very good for pulling a skier out of the water. If your boat has a high performance prop installed, buy an aluminum prop for it to ski with. Also the lower the pitch ratio, the better for skiing.
2007-07-31 14:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by imanucklehed 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep. Our first boat had a 115 merc outboard and was 17 feet. We even skiied 2 at a time.
2007-07-31 19:34:57 · answer #2 · answered by sunybuni 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
will do a great job. have seen a boat like that pull 3 skiers at once.
2007-08-01 00:51:18 · answer #3 · answered by driverman 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure you can ,no problem. Just make sure you have someone else in the boat to watch the skier for safety .
Have a fun summer!
Elaine
2007-07-31 17:18:03 · answer #4 · answered by Elaine814 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes..it'll pull them faster than they want to go!!!!
2007-07-31 16:47:52 · answer #5 · answered by Ron B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure can, we skied behind ours many many times.
2007-07-31 16:50:44 · answer #6 · answered by randy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes you can. I do .
2007-07-31 18:42:07 · answer #7 · answered by daniel h 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋