Quote Originally Posted by Scythe View Post
Do it Vaal style ... Stand with both feet on the pontoons, at +8' above the water in my case it's great and the guys I fish wiith wouldn't dare be seen with a 000

I don't know what the point is of such a big motor for stillwater/estuary. We fished with a either a 4HP or a 6HP two weekends ago on a 12km dam with a howling wind and +50cm swell. The motor handled more than adequately, at one stretch we did about 4kms of purring straight into the teeth of the gale and directly facing the waves on a boat much wider and heavier than the Fishduc and it took us no more than say 15 - 20 minutes without maxxing out the the 4HP in any way.
If you cant rooster your mates you havent got enough horsepower!