Steve: I run a Honda 2HP on my M15. It gets noisy above 3/4 throttle or so. At that speed it will run about 2 hours on a Liter, which is what its tank holds. Going 4 knots in the M15 with no current or headwind, I figure I can get about 28 nautical miles per gallon. When we did the San Juan cruise in June 2005, we went about 200 NM and I burned a total of 3 gallons of gasoline--obviously we didn't motor the whole way! --Gary Hyde N24 'Sailabration' M17 #637 'Hydeaway2' M15 #235 'Vanilla' On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Steve Shenkel wrote:
Of those using the 2 HP Honda's kicker for M17 how well do they work out as a kicker for a dingy? Are there any mounting modifications necessary to utilize the long shaft feature on a dingy motor mount? What is the average time or distance you can get from a tank full of gas? Are there any significant differences over the years of the various models of 2 HP Honda's?
Is the air-cooled Honda 2HP as quiet as the other Honda outboards are know to be? The reason I ask is that I have a 2 HP Johnson air cooled motor that I have used on our Zodiac. If I did not know any better, I would have thought its means of propulsion was noise.
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