Thanks for getting back to me. The motor is direct drive to the prop. The boat top speed is good, over scale yes but not to much. 3/4 throttle looks pretty scale. The boat rides a little nose high and I was thinking about adding some trim tabs on the transom to fix that. Because the top speed is pretty much where I want it can I assume that the prop pitch is correct? The prop is metal. I worked it with a fine pitch file to take the burrs off of all the edges, used a dremel tool to polish it to a dull shine on all surfaces, and used my top flight prop balancer to try to get it balanced. On a flight prop I would remove material from the front side of the baldes to balance, Is it the same for boat props?

Thanks for the help, I am really new to boats. I will try to get some pictures of the drive and prop/ rudder area to post.

Bassman