Quote Originally Posted by Jeepers View Post
I just tried tried the 1617 with horrible results. I've been running the 1847 and quite happy with it. Based on the reviews I've read here I thought I needed to try this thing. Ran great with zero weight. However, once the ballasts were filled 1900#'s I could barely get the boat to 10mph. Full throttle, 3400 rpms and maybe 12 mph. Couldn't even get the boat to plane. Needless to say it getting shipped back asap.
That doesn't sound right at all, did you have any nose weight? When I had the 1617 I was running 3K to surf and was able to get to surf speed no problems.

When wake boarding we would run 2500 even and it would get up and go just fine.