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Thank you all for your help. The strong views either way show the importance of 'is it fit for the purpose'? While the boat is at Henley, True Blue's reasonably light 2 hp 4-stroke will do the job; but I had been also thinking that the boat may end up in Goring where I could breeze up through...

Can someone out there help me? I have an open boat, just over 3 metres in length, 1 and a half metres beam and weighs 74 kilos. According to the builder's specification, it can take a 5 hp short shaft outboard. It happily pushed along with 3 adults on board with a 3 hp Mercury. I'm thinking...