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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | VMS - 6/12/2020 9:36 PM
Hiya,
I found your owners manual and 4700 to 5300 rpm is correct, so your numbers are really good there....
Can you possibly do me a quick favor? Can you take a straight edge and place it in different spots on the bottom of the hull right at the transom? I'm curious if the straight edge stays right on the hull at the rear where the transom meets the hull or if the hull comes up off the straight edge as it reaches the transom edge...
Prop-wise, the amita is a great prop, so I am going to hold off on considering another option....
I'm really curious about that back edge... If you can, maybe a picture or two of the straight edge on the hull?
Steve
Are you looking for transom angle or a rocker in the running bottom? There's probably nothing 'out of sorts' with the hull. Transom height is more than expected at about 20.5". The hull is a padded sponsoned V created by splitting an Esox LTD sponsoned hull and adding 10" width (as a flat) between the chines, and runs really well as a wheel boat with as much as a 135. Transom has about 3 degrees negative if I remember correctly. Rig it with a 90 console, and it's a rocket that can be trimmed up and run on the pad. I have always believed the tiller 60 model, insanely popular for years, had a problem being under powered as a 4 stroke powered tiller. It ran better with a 2 stroke 60. The pad is the 'issue' if you will. Just as the hull begins to lift under trim with a 60, it reaches a point where the engine/prop can't hold it. Make sense?
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