Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

Looking for expected top speed and what to expect in fuel use for this boat. Found what appears to be a fair deal. Anything I should be concerned about with Sweetwater, etc? Opps...sorry... 22'

I've got a 2015 20" Sweetwater with a 90 Yamaha. With 2 people and a full tank of gas I attain 28/29 MPH on the GPS and it sips fuel. As far as quality, I have no complaints. Love the boat.

I have a 2015 240 DF Sweetwater. Overall length 25' 8" 2 tubes lifting Strakes , first year out with Yamaha F115LB 27.5 MPH.
However been trying to get rid of cavitation problem and regain that speed. Currently getting 24 MPH.
With right setup I think around 29 MPH would be the best I could hope for. I'd be happy with a reliable 25 MPH.
For me that works for fishing cruising and tubing.
In general I'm happy with the quality of the boat and love the floor plan.

Thanks so much for the reply. Going to "look" at it tomorrow and possibly purchase. Any other suggestions are certainly appreciated !!!

Have a 23 foot toon with 115 Yamaha speed between 30-35. Fuel use seems to be good never have checked anything to see what I am getting. A lot depends on speed and weather wind and waves.

Thanks for all the help!!! Guess I can find out for myself as we pulled the trigger and pulled it home today!! Got some riggin' to do and get familiar with it, then off we go!! I will be wearing this forum out and hopefully learn even more so I can give back. Thanks again !!
Sami

Gonefishing wrote:Have a 23 foot toon with 115 Yamaha speed between 30-35.

Surely you have a tri-toon. Very few two toon boats with 115's will hit 30 MPH or above. (A certain two toon Suntracker with strakes is one exception I know.)

sunedog wrote:

Gonefishing wrote:Have a 23 foot toon with 115 Yamaha speed between 30-35.

Surely you have a tri-toon. Very few two toon boats with 115's will hit 30 MPH or above. (A certain two toon Suntracker with strakes is one exception I know.)

I'm with you. I have a 23 ft two toon rig w a FB 115 Yamaha and with 4 people and half tank of fuel the best I EVER got was 27 mph GPS on a dead calm , glass watered day. Most days its a max of 25 but then I run full throttle only 5% of the time anyway. Im not gonna say it cant happen , but its pretty unlikely, especially with no lifting strakes. If it has strakes , then it very well might ...every so often

I did have one of those trackers you speak of with a 90 Merc on it ..That bastard would run 34-35 M.P.H GPS all day long.

I've got an old Starcraft pontoon with a Yamaha 115 hp 2 stroke. It accelerates like a bass boat coming out of the hole, but all of a sudden it hits a mph wall. That's because it's pontoon boats are displacement hulls. To get any more speed with 2 toons requires a great deal of horsepower.

The other trick to getting speed is getting those nosecones out of the water--which requires lifting strakes. The problem then is in a tight turn, the outside toon will dig in deep and really slow you down. Tritoons with strakes don't dig in so much and they corner so much better.