Impossible shallow water start… 

It does make ya wonder… With the Roost you get longtail capability for your surface drive, without losing the speed and drivability that surface drives are known for. There are advantages to longtails, but that list has gotten shorter since the introduction of the Roost.

All I know is it’s good if your hopping trees to have a long tail. It’s safer to clear the prop from the log but honestly I’ve never had a surface drive so I can imagine it can prob hop logs easily too

You’ll never get longtail capability even with that. My godevil 23 walks grass compared to my buddies mud buddy 40 with a roost. Helps but the longtail would’ve been out at the first pull of the throttle

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Sure! If I understand your question correctly, the skeg on the Mud Buddy Mini is different from the one on the HDR. The HDR leaves the face of the drive box exposed. The Mini has the skeg wrapping under the bottom to the front of the drive box. The motor in this video is a Mini. When you say dragging, do you mean dragging on the bottom or catching weeds or something else?

That’s a very complex question. The short answer is in general most folks would recommend a longtail, since they are historically known for their four wheel drive type of performance. Surface drives have historically struggled in these kinds of conditions, but the Roost prop is changing that. Ultimately, it comes down to the entire setup (motor +boat +prop). I’ve run both longtails and surface drives, and none of my longtails could have dreamed of pulling off what the surface drive did in this video. If you want to be able to crawl over anything, a longtail is the way to go. If you want to go through nasty conditions and go fast, a surface drive with a Roost prop is the way to go. In the case of this video, I needed rapid acceleration and speed to shoot the section of dry grass. If you have further questions about this, please give us a call and we’d be happy to walk you though this.

I live in south Florida. I mainly boat where there is extremely thick vegetation like in this video. The water is also very shallow. It would be more ideal for an airboat, but unfortunately I cannot afford one right now. Right now these are what I’m deciding between Welded alumacraft 1446 Gx690 25hp mud buddy mini. Very light boat like the one in this video. Welded 1655 Jon boat. Has a 2023 backwater longtail 40hp. Boat seems pretty heavy but it is a flat bottomed boat with a lot of hp. The guy claims it hits 30mph. Would I be able to run that prop on the longtail rig or just the surface drive?

@@Gibson_Nutt Big boats with lots of horsepower and speed sound great until you get them stuck. With a light weight rig, you can just get out drag it. Plus in general they will start in less water than the big boats. Those Backwaters are legit, but that's going to make for a heavier rig. If the 1446 is a flat-bottom, I would choose that with the Mud Buddy. You should be able to get right about 30 mph out of that Mud Buddy with a Roost on it. The rig in the video holds 30.5 all day at 4200 ft elevation. The Roost would only fit on the Mud Buddy. It's too big to fit on the Backwater.

The motor is a Mud Buddy Mini 23 EFI with 34/48 gearing on a custom built 1342 lightweight flat bottom hull and of course a Roost prop.

Because the bottom is very hard packed and bumpy. Plus there’s a lot of packed down phragmites. It’s jumping because the skeg is hitting all that and is unable to go through it, so it bounces over it.

It’s a Mud Buddy Mini 23 EFI