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When selecting a motor, remember the motor is part of the capacity of the boat. That capacity includes you, passengers, gear, the boat itself, and the motor. A 5 hp should be fine, but you may want to look for a 2-5hp Nissan, Tohatsu, Honda, or Suzuki. Look for a used one if money is a problem. Those motors named are far superior to the B&S motor.
The Honda is 4 strokes and the rest are 2 strokes. Electric motor: quiet, no smell, heavy battery, limited range, slower than outboard, power cable running inside the canoe. Outboard motor: noisy, smell, lighter than the battery, very good for point A to point B crusing, not so good for position the boat at a fishing spot.
If you are making the jump to a square stern i’d go gas, if you are trying out power add an electric to your current canoe. FYI I found my small gas outboard 2.5 hp/27 lbs was too much weight/power on a offset mount canoe is a MRC Freedom. Sure it works fine on bigger boats. jake703 June 5, 2012, 5:54pm #7.
Goobs November 20, 2012, 11:11am #2. iI use. Dear rb, I have a 40 pound thrust MinnKota electric motor that I use on a 15’ Grumman wide bodied square stern canoe. With a freshly charged battery it will move 2 people and their fishing gear for a weekend. I’m not talking about running the motor constantly, I’m talking about motoring to a ...
Not sure how noisy the Honda is being air cooled, as I’ve been away from boating for awhile. The first outboard I had for my dinghy was a 3.5 hp Nissan and it was quite satisfactory.Nissan/Tohatsu same thing as I recall, they made a 2.5/3.5 that were a hair over 20 pounds, integral tank and reasonably quiet, with decent torque at half throttle.
I have a very tiny, ancient trolling motor on a 14-foot fishing boat that weighs about 350 pounds and has an extra 200 pounds of permenant gear on board (outboard motor, battery, and two anchors). I think the thrust is only 12 pounds, but it will power the boat into any wind, just not real fast. It's nearly as strong as a person powering the oars.
Maximum Hull Speed (in knots)= 1.34 * sqaure root LWL. One knot is about 1.1 miles per hour. What that translates into is you take the square root of the length of the waterline, and multiply by 1.34, that’s the fastest you can expect to go under power. So a hull with a 15’ waterline can go about 5.2 knots (5.7 mph).
A 5hp motor on a side mount bracket on a normal canoe will be a handfull. be fully employed with a 16 foot canoe. The lighter the motor, the better, and 3 hp is plenty. You can cut the stern off to about 10 inches wide rebuild it beef it up some and watch the throtle.
Dear board, I realize that this boat is a compromise of compromises as far as paddlers are concerned. I am looking for a boat with great capacity suitable for fishing that doesn’t require a trailer to realistically transport. It won’t be an ocean-going vessel or need to shoot rapids. It will be mostly used solo or with my wife to fish local lakes that are electric motor only or horsepower ...
Another test I did (same boat) was a wide open full out speed 5 run up a lake 3 miles into the river and then up the river against slow to moderate currents (1 to 3.5 mph currents from previous drift speed measurements with GPS) for 4 miles, as far a this hull (4 inch draft) could go, then turn around and use the motor at low speeds only to ...