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Originally Posted by Islander
Sorry, but no reasonable person is going to buy this lower horsepower means bigger wake thing. As I remember speed limits mean bigger wake to. Does global warming cause larger wake?
Yes, I'm sure there is a possible situation where replacing a boats engine with a smaller one will keep it from getting on plane. But that same boat would create the same large wake with a larger engine at partial power.
And do you really think anybody is going to take the big engines out of a GFBL and put in tiny ones? That I would like to see.
However if you insist this is possible then we can have a horsepower, number of cylinder AND displacement maximum.
Now dream up a way to get around that!
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Have you ever noticed that when on plane, the faster you go, the smaller the wake becomes? I did not mean to imply that folks would put ridiculously small engines in boats, such that they could only plow along, I suggest only that lower cruising speeds necessitated by lower HP would make bigger wakes. When my boat is barely on plane, it kicks up an enormous wake. Another 10 MPH and the wake is pretty reasonable. If I had a less powerful engine, I'd be compelled to drop my cruising speed to keep the engine in a reasonable RPM range for longevity.
GFBL boats do not, typically, kick up a big wake and would be foolish to target if wakes were the issue. At 50 MPH they make tiny ripples.
How do you plan to measure displacement? You think the MP is going to tear down each engine and measure the bore and stroke? What displacement limit would you suggest? Or did you mean the boat's displacement? In that case what would you suggest?