Originally Posted by
monkeyfish
Sorry for the delay in updating my progress......well actually not much progress to report.
As stated in my first post, I had a problem with my power poles catching water.
I had raised them as high as I could and thought I had fixed the problem.
When I let a friend of mine drive the boat, I noticed 3 rooster tails coming off the stern, 1 from the motor and 1 from each pole.
I contacted Power Pole and they advised that I had the wrong brackets. Even taking into account swapping to the Bob's from the Z Lock, they were still the wrong
ones installed at the factory.
I managed to find the correct brackets (PKD-s-2-6 if anyone cares) and installed them last weekend.
I finally got a chance to borrow a 25P Fury 3 from a friend and went to the lake yesterday.
I noticed an immediate difference in the way the boat felt with no more triple rooster tail.
Fastest pass was 78.3 mph (gps) at 6140 rpm.
I think I'm going to have to start from scratch and re try the other props as now I'm positive that dragging the poles was affecting the performance.
Stats:
air temp 86 deg.
water temp 74.9
slight chop
25p Fury 3
3 full plugs
3 1/2 p2p
*** I usually blast off with the plate all the way up, but the fury would ventilate just at breakover and I had to feather the throttle while dropping the plate.
I tried taking off with the jackplate set at 3 1/2, and the boat just "popped" out of the hole on plane with no blowout.