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I think I've got the boat running a lot better and wanted to update you all. It seems like the problem was multifactorial. I had mentioned in my previous post that cleaning the marine growth from the toons increased my speed from 24mph@4300rpm to 31mph@4600rpm. I looked carefully at my fuel and...

Dealer did the most recent service, I'll check with them what they did. I believe it was dealer serviced prior to that as well. I'm not sure if the impeller has been changed. The engine temp is running perfectly normal

Will do, planning to do both water fuel separator and fuel filter at the same time since I have to prime anyways after. Thinking I'll throw in spark plugs at the same time too. The engine just had 100 hour service right before it was delivered to me, so theoretically this was all just done...

Thanks everyone for the feedback! Quick update: Propgods was closed last week so didn't do anything with the prop yet. I did look at the toons as suggested and there was some marine growth on them. There were some small barnacles up to 5mm in diameter. I softened them up with barnacle buster...

No wave shield, I can see wood between the cross members when looking from underneath

Great, thanks for the suggestions! I'm going to try a new prop and report back. Good to know that this should be a 40+ mph boat, that's what I expected so I was surprised when it really didn't perform anywhere near that at WOT

Hi all, I'm new to Bennington's and pontoons but have had a few boats before including most recently a 21' center console. I just took delivery a few weeks ago of a new to me 2014 Q25 with a Yamaha F250XCA and a Yamaha SWS2 17"x15.5 prop, 400 hours. This has the EPS Tritoon package with lifting...