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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boatyard" data-source="post: 522806" data-attributes="member: 36319">Aluminum boats can vary greatly in  what they can handle. Alumacraft tended to be on the lighter side. The one I had years ago didn't weigh much more than my 15ft canoe. 10hp was ll I'd dare hang on it and even then the transom would flex under power. While most newer Starcraft boats are rated up to 30hp with a 65" beam width. The 90's 'Alaskan' hull Starcaft and Smokercraft hulls were rated to 35hp, and my Duranautic 'Offshore' 14 was rated at 40hp. I ran an older 40hp Evinrude on it for years that weighed around 200 lbs or so. I later figured that if it could hold the 40hp  a 50hp was no more weight. It lasted for four years before cracking the knee braces treating it like a jetski jumping the wakes of other boats on the lake in my younger, less wiser days.</blockquote>