Cabin- Need help on well pump power and generator!

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to post and get some opinions and hopefully some electrical help for my current setup.

I purchased a cabin recently and it has a dug well. Previous owner said he believes it is around 17ft deep. Anyhow... it has a submersible 4" Franklin Electric Model 244504 pump installed. Tech specs are:
.5 hp
115 V
Amp-10
S.F Amp-12
Code-R
PH-1

So I contacted the company and they get me a engineer but long story short they don't have the starting watts, they go by "Locked rotor amps" witch is about 64 Amps!!! If I figure that out they are saying 7,360 watts to start this pump potentially...?The pump is wired to a 15amp 120v breaker so I don't understand how it could draw up to that much to start and not trip.

Anyway it works fine BUT the issue is currently there is a older Troy Built generator that powers the cabin. 6,000 running and 8,000 peak. Now when the pump kicks on sometimes the lights flicker for a second which makes me think no joke that pump needs A LOT of startup juice. I have only had the cabin for a few months but what I want to do is downgrade to a small Honda 2200 generator for the cabin. The troy built guzzles about 6 gallons in 24 hrs
Side note- all appliances run off propane. So on the generator besides well pump I could have every light on LED and draw about 80 watts, a small 32" lcd tv and a dvd player is about all I normally run for electric. Trying to reduce that gas consumption by at least 50%.

Do I just need to get a different well pump or do you think there is no way it really draws that much power for a .5 HP pump. I have been looking online and average is 1800-2000 estimated start up for a .5hp pump.

what does everyone thing? New pump and generator or the little honda 2200 will handle it.

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Cabin- Need help on well pump power and generator!