These traditional wooden panga-style open work/fishing boats, known as Pineros in Venezuelan, are often powered by several small outboards, usually no more than 40 hp each. These Pinero boats can be up to 30' in length, top speed would be about 25 to 30 mph with a limited range, probably only 150-200 miles, depending on how many extra fuel tanks are carried on board.
Cartel drug runners would use much newer, more sophisticated vessels, usually with multiple outboards of 400+ hp each, capable of speeds in excess of 80 mph to outrun authorities, designed to handle heavier offshore sea conditions at those speeds, with a far greater range and fuel capacity. The boat Trump bragged about blowing up was not a high speed, high hp drug boat.
Typical smaller panga-style Venezuelan Pinero open work boat with twin outboards, probably 40 hp each.
Image of the Pinero boat blown up off the coast of Venezuela. These outboards look to be 50-70 hp each. There's no possible way this boat could make it 1400 miles to the U.S. coast.
Typical high speed, high hp, offshore boat with quad 450 hp outboards on transom.
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