really got it dialed in today, and lost a TON of weight !!!!!

[TNT]

Buddy from my bass club met up with me today to get my boat dialed in. Never really had messed with the jack plate that much and wanted some help. He's a Skeeter team guy and really knows his stuff.

I'd never really broken 69mph on a good day (no wind, half tanks of fuel, running solo, etc) and I was getting frustrated so I asked for some help.

Got the jack plate just right and with some other work I finally got it to 71 mph at 5800 RPM's. My prop has a couple of dings in it so I think with cleaning it up and have it set right I might be able to get close to 75.

Side note, did I learn a lot about weight. When he opened up my compartments to look he laughed. Had a TON of plastics in there and a LOT of hard baits. All in my center two compartments. Boat was balanced well, but heavy.

He made me GUT the front of my boat except for all my rods and what baits I'd use today. WOW. When we got out on the water the boat was sitting 2" higher EASILY. That's when after the final adjustment I got my top speeds.

I'd been adding and adding plastics over time, not thinking much about it but damn did I realize how much I'd put in there !!

I bet when I reorganize I don't carry 1/3 of what I did before !!!

[Cborden]

Yea that added weight will slow you down..My tourny partner and I fished a local lake last week and on the way to the ramp I noticed we were only doing 63 in his 21i.Both of us are around 230lbs so I really started wondering how much weight he had to be carrying in tackle..Surely this boat will do closer to 70 even though we are two fat guys..

[Neilslure]

I need to put mine on a diet too, I have done some culling in recent months. Running a 25 T-1, mine seems to like the weight in the rear end.