Agree and thank you for your comments. When we ran it yesterday with 440 lbs of passengers, no gear and 3/4 tank of fuel, when I trimmed it out at full throttle we achieved 26 MPH at 6200 RPM.
It would be OK, if one was just staying on one lake, but we do occasionally do Lake Michigan for salmon and Erie for Walleye. The Erie trip would be a major concerns due to rapid weather changes.