My fishing buddy just put a 25hp tiller w/ lectric start & power trim/tilt on his 15 ft lund...

looks sweeeet, runs nice, lots of bells and whistles... havent given it a real workout yet so I cant really answer your question. but I dont think you can really go wrong though.

One thing I would look at is the tilt mechanism... some of the newer motors have alot of plastic in this area. My old johnson 9.9 was all metal, and damn near bullet prooof. lift the motor up halfway and it locks for shallow running... or lift it all the way out of the water for beaching it.