Spaceman, I have been meaning to ask you for some time about your boat. Those smaller War Eagle combo boats interest me. I'm looking into buying a small boat as I live in Cullman where Lake Catoma has a 10hp limit and I work in Triana/Madison and frequently fish the river backwater around Limestone bay after work from a 12' flatbottom I throw in the back of my truck. You think a new or well tuned 9.9hp would push your boat ok if it wasn't too loaded down? I have fished in plenty of 14-16' flatbottom and mod-V boats outfitted with 9.9 2-strokes that seemed to plane easily and still get up to around 20mph. None of those were advertised as duck boats though and were probably thinner gauge and lighter boats than yours. Just curious.