Hey all, possibly a novice question here, if not then mods feel free to move to the appropriate section.
I've owned many boats, mostly for hunting than boating and fishing. All have been aluminum including my current Lowe 170. None until now have had the "power" or were designed to get onto the pad. Not than I have a ton of power now with my 70hp Yamaha but plenty get it up on the pad.
Having said all that, how should the boat handle while on pad? Should I expect it to turn well? What I've noticed is once on pad I loose the ability to turn hard or bank into turns. I don't know if this is normal operation, characteristics of my specific boat or aluminum boats in general, or this is not normal at all. When I turn it will slowly point the bow in the desired direction but when I push the turn harder all of a sudden it "catches" and bites hard and nearly throws you from the boat. Maybe this is the water chines catching or it coming off of the pad and it catches???