General Discussion

Nobody is using a $1.2MM midnight express with 4 450hp engines to run drugs as is your example. They aren’t running fountains or cigarettes etc. it’s not the 80’s. The boats often get caught and they want speed but they are disposable assets. A 400hp outboard is $40,000 a piece plus rigging. Those drug runs are one way events.

Those aren’t 40hp engines on the drug boat. Those are larger.

They use 150-200hp engines all the time. You can see in the pictures the size of those engines. Those boats have been caught over a dozen times this year. They are often older or 2 strokes and easy to get a hold of. You can see the boats speed in the video and know those aren’t 50hp engines. Especially with 11 people on board plus cargo in open seas.