Who needs a mud motor.....
 

When you can run your mercury like this: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=JQvRfHn8-tA

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not to shabby but I still rather a mud motor

I'd say he bumped the rev limiter once or twice. Dat's shalla rite der. :lol:

A mud motor would be better, but seven grand for just the motor is a bit much. A 40 merc on a tunnel is a good compromise.

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I had a 40 on a tunnel and it does not compare to my 27 longtail. Maybe out on shallow flats, that's about it.

The main downside to a mud motor in my opinion is the lack of speed. Even a short tail probably won't hit 30 with two people and gear unless its modified. Not good if you have a long run. Other than that I think they are awesome.

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I have a 9.9 Yammy turning a 27p choper thats mounted on a 12" hydrolic jack plate pushing my 18x44 Borel loaded with 5 guys and all our hunting and fishing gear that will run in 1" or lesss and does 62 on gps

And you wonder why I call you stupid dummy idiot moron etc......


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you just jealous that it out runs your boat

Lol


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Weewacker i think yours put that to shame when we was in laccafish this yr.


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Agreed, for every person loaded into a surface drive I believe you loose 5 mph. They suck for long runs in various depths of water, slo bote to China.

At one point in time I really wanted one, but I don't see the point now. A good tunnel hull with a 40 mercury will go a lot of places and get there faster and you can probably get the complete rig for cheaper than a mud motor by itself.

its all about what you gonna use it for, I have a big boat now so if I was just gonna have another boat for marsh fishing and duck hunting I would not mind a mud motor

Yeah but you're a high-dollar operator and your wife is a big-shot teacher at McNeese! :D

LOL thats a good one since we know what teachers make

We run my 18' tunnel/merc 40 into the marsh and transfer into a surface drive for a short run. It would take us 45 mins to make the trip in surface drive I make in 15 mins. Actually it would have been way cheaper to run a longtail on an 18' vs S/D.

I think the guy in the video has the boat for sale on se Texas.com. I sent an email to see if it's the same boat.

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mecury
 

im not a big fan of mercs but the older 2 stroke mercs can go through alot, i hav a friend with a 25 yamaha 2srtoke that does basicly the same thing with his and it doesnt overheat at all.

Achieving higher speed with surface drives has a lot to do with the boat as well as the motor. It needs to have a flat smooth bottom with longitude ribs. Our gatortail rig runs 32 with 2 guys, a dog, and all our gear. The motor is modded though. Stock it ran about 27 with the same load. Between the lilies, grass, and mud where we hunt a typical water cooled outboard would make it halfway to our blinds!

That's pretty good speeds. Those gator-tails sure are nice.

Yeah it runs great but its got a lot of mods. We just wanted a better throttle response when we first started modding it but the extra speed was addictive and we wound up going further than we originally we thought we would go with it.