just picked up a 5hp briggs longtail, anybody ever ran something that small , i'll be using a super light 14 foot v-bottom perty narrow boat to , i dont run her in mud just think weeds, i usallly have 2 ppl in the boat plus gear, do u think ill be ok for running the londest run would be 2 miles and the water is deep jsut really weedy any input would be really great
thanks guy's
brandyn from canada

we got two boats just like you runnin they are both homemade poke boat style one has a 6hp really short long tail and the other one is a 5hp i think with the same short tail we run ours in the timber in northern mississippi and have pushed 3 guys 200+ each at 5 miles in hour in the timber them little motors got some torque to them and have got us out some crap before

right on man, thanks for the info, been little worried about this little motor of mine doing the job! im not try'n to get anywhere fast , we normal just use a canoe (i know canadian in a canoe hahahahahaahaha) but they work really good for the marsh we hunt just getting alittle tired of all that and not having alot of room for gear so if im alittle faster then that then im real happy , which i hope i am hahahahaahahah

it will for sure be faster we can get on a plain some times if your running alone with normal hunting load last year we took 2 big bucks and me out in it on a lease we had and were going 6 mph the whole time with that big as$ load

thats sweet look'n forword to try'n my motor out , just ordered a 6.5x4 tiger prop for it so i hope that dose the trick , what prop u put on your???

We actually made our own props i think a 5 pitch not sure on size we made them and machined them up.