Decide on a longtail over a suface drive?
I've run a LT since 1988.
First an 11HP GoDevil, then a 25 hp MB and now a 35 MB for the last 10 years.
I moving on to another and my buddy who has a 35 MB SD is giving me crap about getting another LT.
From my experience, when I see a SD, they look great and fly across the water and are easy on the body to run. But when they set down in the hard bottom shallows, they struggle. Most videos I see, they are run in the thick mud where the prop can dig in. Don't see too many running a hard bottom marsh or rocky river.
Last fall I watch a conservation officer struggle with his surface drive going from hunter to hunter to the point I went out and ask if he needed a tow out to deeper waters.
For me, the LT is more difficult to run and has no reverse, but I never seem to get stuck. I seldom ever have to get out of the boat to push. When I go with my buddy we have to get out and push every trip.
And now with the 40 coming out, I don't think I'll have to worry about speed and getting up on plane.
So why did you go with a LT and not a SD?
OH! Thanks, Frank for posting the Swomp review on youtube, nice work. And to others also.
Send my order in Monday
