ORIGINAL: headhunter23
Why wouldn't it work? Would prolly work pretty good, except if one pontoon is up high other down low etc... as going through rapids.
Hey quicksilver I moved all the stuff right to the front of the boat. The nose was almost submerged and the rear was out of the water so much that the jet couldn't start unless I forced the rear under the water to get it going. This corrected some of the porpoising until I hit 2/3 then it just came back.
Idea's to fix this? I would like to use trim tabs as a last resort, should I pull out the drive and cut more off the hull? It seems that the front is too buoyant, and maybe reset the drive so the jet is shooting lower(right) to get the hull down?
Oh yea... If I did go the trim tab route, where to stick... outter edge, middle close to centre?
I think you should mod the hull, or buy a different one, from the pics(thx for the pics btw), it looks like the mid section is way to deep, kind of like a whale shape. Getting rid of that would be tough, but it can be done with a cutting wheel and fiberglass. I think this hump is causing the problem you could try trimming the boat up. jet boat like a constant dead rise, that's a big reason I keep sticking with villains.
To fix it without major surgery, tabs could work, I would put them maybe a 1/2" from the centerline, I would try trimming the bow up and try the batteries all the way back one more then, it's a matter of fine tuning it. tabs maybe Aft I took off my trim tabs on the villain, it chine walked wildly at WOT.
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