Maybe try to find a really good condition used two stroke 25. The 25 Merc I ran on a 15’ before I moved up to a big boat for big waters only weighed 15 pounds more (114lbs) than a 4 stroke 9.9 (99 lbs) and 60 lbs less than a 25 4 stroke (174 lbs) and would run on plane with 3 of us with little effort. Weight was the same as the 20 but the extra 5hp was very noticeable.
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