honda 5hp outboard speed test 

Nice video, I was your 700th subscriber so congrats on 700 subs!

I had the same with my mercury 6hp couldn't get on plane. I installed a hydrofoil and a different pitch prop. Goes up on plane now in seconds. Great vid

Move a foot or so nearer the engine to reduce weight on the bow?

I have a White shark 2.3 meter with a 9. 9 hp Evinrude two cyl twostroke. It does 14 knots on full throttle, and keeps plane down to around 10 on half throttle. Two adults in the boat. Might be faster just one person. If you want to keep weight down, buy a two stroke. It also yields much more power over the entire curve up to max rev where it meets the four stroke.

Well done, i just got me the same outboard 😁 with a Saturn dinghy, just to do fishing around the lake..

Hi , what is the manufactured year for this engine ? Is very strong

Johnson seahorse 5hp two stroke plains easy hovers around 14-15 mph on a 2.9 meter bark

Quantos metros tem essa embarcação? Comprei um Mercury 5hp 2 tempos e to analisando o tamanho do bote inflável que devo comprar

To be fair you do seem to be going along at a decent lick, at times it does look like you’re planing, or almost. Perhaps it takes a bit of time to settle on the plane with the 5hp. Personally I wouldn’t go for a hydrofoil on a low hp motor as it just seems pointless, but as i say that’s my own personal thought. I think the extra drag it would create would possibly make it worse? I would play around with different trim positions and see if you can move weight a bit further back? Worth a try. I have a cheap n cheerful tobin sports 3.3m and i have an old mariner 4hp 2stroke and with just mesnd a few bits on board it actually gets up on the plane no problem (clocked myself at 14kt too 😂). If I’m carrying lots of kit/passengers i have a 15hp. Good luck with it 👍

Install a jack plate get the motor higher out of the water cavitation plate should be on top of the water

Hydrofoil would definitely make a difference

I got 27kph out of mine, its the 1985 BF50 5hp on a 2.4 inflatable, running 95 octane.

What lenght have boat ?

You need a small propellers. 7.8.6

Will plane if you start slow, don't yank it to full throttle straight away, try getting there graduately. And make sure to trim the OB as low as possible to keep the nose down, these B-world sibs have a tendency to take off. A 3m boat with 5hp ob and one adult should plane on that flat sea, unless you weight something like 20 stones or more. Funny thing, when I was looking up boat fishing spots in our area your videos came up. Now I was looking up "honda 5hp ob" and there you are again 😅

Hydrofoil will not plane it

Greetings, You can make that motor into a 6HP. It is real easy and will cost you no more than $200.

Hydrofoil will help get you on plane but you’ll lose a little off top speed