Thread: Advice on outboards

Recently bought a new boat, a second hand Surtees 4.85 centre console. Sweet little set up. It came with a 2011 Evinrude 60hp 2 stroke (only done 210 hrs) which pushes it along fine with just me in he boat, but took out my son and his mate the other day and coming back into steep wee chop struggled a bit to get up on the plane and had to get weight forward to get planing. Will leave as is for now but wondering about getting something with more grunt on the back . Would one of the new 4 stroke 60 hp motors ( Yamaha, Merc, Suzuki, Honda ) be more powerful than 10 yr old 2 stroke ? Or should I look at 70 Hp motor ? I see Yammie do a 70hp that is pretty much same weight as the 60’s ? Or other suggestions ?