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| To Piggy Back of SWorral's Comments, you can potentially gain some of your RPM's back by raising the motor a bolt hole or possibly two. It's roughly 100rpm for every bolt hole. The idea here is that the less "stuff" that is in the water, the faster you will go. the downfall to this is when you raise the motor, your handling will be less (minimal though with the correct prop)
Testing is the fun part. If you can, raise the motor one hole and take it for a test ride. If the prop does not blow out on a moderate turn, go back and raise one more bolt hole. If it starts to blow out, trim it down just a tad. If it continues, lower the motor back down one hole and you will be as tuned in as best you can with that particular prop without a jack plate.
When the motor and prop are matched well with the boat, it will feel like it's floating along in the water at 4500 or so RPMs....a nice cruise...so to speak.
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