I added a CB SS foil to my 2011 200 hp Optimax on a Legend 191. It stopped the porpoiseing at low speeds and improved the hole shot. I also pull tubes and skiers and it helps keep the boat on plane at lower speeds. With one person and a half tank of gas my top speed was 69 mph in the cooler months without the foil. This past summer with the foil the top speed was 67.7. I attribute the slight drop in top speed which is only 1.3 mph to the hot summer air. The hardest for me was getting past drilling in the cavitation plate.
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Awesome! Definately getting one on this winter! When i got 2 full livewells mine take a bit to plane out. Otherwise it jumps right out of the hole. If it helped ya out that much, i need it. Lol
I'll second the foil. My new (at the time) motor was a little heavier and it sure did take away from my hole shot and porpoising at low speeds drives me nuts. It's all fixed now and it looks great.
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Are you guys installing these foils yourselves, or having a shop do it? How hard is it to align everything when preparing to drill? Thanks.
I used four spring hand clamps to hold the foil in place. As I drilled each hole, I inserted a bolt to make sure the plate did not move. Worked great for me.
Love my CB Foil. Made a solid difference in both quickness on plane and ability to not porpoise at slower speeds. Worth the $$ spent.
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Great video. Thanks.
If boat has correct prop and hp set in correct hole should not need one.
like trying to put lipstick on a pig
SE SPORT 300 WORKS INCREDIBLY WELL- JUST PUT ON MY 19.5 SKEETER- ZERO POPOISING NOW, BOAT IS ON PLAN IN LESS THAN 2 SECONDS- BEST $59.99 EVER
The answer is partially in what you wrote. We have the same boat but you are running larger prop and lower gear ratio. My standard 115 has a different lower unit. Your larger prop and lower gear ratio slips less on hole shot. Now not to say mine is bad, but many of the places I fish I need to pop on plane with less power and need to follow narrow winding submerged creek channels on plane at minimal speed. With the foil I can plane with half throttle and little bow rise and can now stay on plane at 15-16 mph where as I needed 21 mph before. I can also cruise at half throttle and trimmed up shallow without any porpoise now. Also, when needing to travel above idle but not on plane, all boats tend to squat in the rear and raise the bow. You pull a big wake like this and the boat tends to wallow. The foil increases your ability to travel above idle by adding rear lift and allowing you to motor along at higher than idle but not dug in and pulling so much wake. Not everywhere these type of driving styles are needed. Many people just need to plane off and travel from point a to point b at the quickest rate. But those of us who sometimes fish flooded river and creek channels and backwater winding oxbows need lower speed manuverability.
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I got a plastic one and put it on my 250. Performance was way better, but the first grass patch I went through, it broke it off. So wasn't on long.