67Lb Mg For 18Ft Skeeter Big Enough

[Junebugman]

Hi all! I have a special edition 1986 u.s. bass world championship skeeter sf175 starfire with a 1985 merc black max this thing flies!!!! It has a lol!! 45 lb edge on it now, but I found a mg brute 67lb 24 volt tm for it will this be big enough as far as power? please any info will help! Thank's Tightlines!! Junebugman

[slonezp]

Should be fine. If you tend to fish in the wind alot might be a little underpowered. Still better than what you have.

[NBR]

My boat is a 19' Astro the original TM was 40#. When it failed I replaced with a 67# which has been fine. There are times I'd like bigger but rarely do I run the TM at over 40% power.

[MarkH024]

I have a 17'6 2001 Ranger R73 with a 115 Evinrude Ficht. My trolling motor is a Powerdrive V2 70lb thrust. That's a fairly close match up to you, and my trolling motor is perfect. I think you'll be just fine with that. If it's really windy you'll probably have to crank it up to keep a consistent speed so make sure you have good batteries. Good luck

[Al Wolbach]

As long as you don't fish a lot of weeds you will be fine. My 20' Champion came with 67lb MG Brute and it was fine until I fished lakes with heavy weeds.............Al

[scrutch]

I think you'll be fine too, but I wouldn't pass up an opportunity to upgrade to more thrust in the future. You can NEVER have too much thrust. I went to a 101# thrust on an 18 ft Cobra and I've never thought I had too much. In fact, there have been a couple times I needed the extra power. When it comes to TM thrust, go big or go home.

[Shane Procell]

I have a 21 foot Stratos with the MG Brute 67. Works fantastic and I rarely run it at more than 40%.

[greyleg33]

You should be fine. Rare is the time you'll need more than 67.

[Fishn4-5]

I had the same boat at one time time and it was a pretty fast boat with the old 2.4 200 merc till i blew it up so i thougt what the heck!! and hung a 260 on the back wow was that thing a hand full that boat wasent made for the kinda speeds i was trying to run it i could run up to about 82 and it would just get to unstable... So i figured if i wanted to go fast and I DO i better get me a Allison so I did and now with the old motor i could 99.7 im putting a promax on it this winter ill lose some speed but it will last a little longer then the 260s do