I just bought my first boat earlier this summer, and the prop is in pretty poor shape. The boat is a 1994 Maxum 1700 with the 3.0l mercruiser 135hp I/O.
I was going to buy a new prop for it so I went to look at the pitch, and it is currently 13.75 x 21. Does this pitch seem too high for the boat? It seems like it takes forever to plane and we slalom ski a lot so it would be nice if it had more acceleration. The boat does not have a tach though, so I'm afraid of overrevving the engine if we drop the pitch.
Do you think it would be safe to drop to a 19inch or 17inch pitch without overrevving at full throttle? The max rpms are 4400- 4800 i believe.
I was going to buy a new prop for it so I went to look at the pitch, and it is currently 13.75 x 21. Does this pitch seem too high for the boat? It seems like it takes forever to plane and we slalom ski a lot so it would be nice if it had more acceleration. The boat does not have a tach though, so I'm afraid of overrevving the engine if we drop the pitch.
Do you think it would be safe to drop to a 19inch or 17inch pitch without overrevving at full throttle? The max rpms are 4400- 4800 i believe.