I have a 1436 " Jonny" .. I have a 3.5 horse and it plains with me and my son. I dont use exterior gas can though. I also put a 5 horse Merc but it is a long shaft on a short shaft boat. It works and it plains very good. I use the 5 horse long on my bigger boat and dont care to have 2 motors so I started using my long 5 horse Merc. I do wish I would have went with an 8 horse cause its a 2 cal. and likely much smoother. My single cyl. 5 horse is not smooth. It uses very little gas however.

But the fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, Gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law. Galations 5: 22&23