kungpaoshizi
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2013
- Messages
- 221
Motor and boat in my sig... Right now I *think the motor is properly positioned on the transom/PTT CMC plate... cavitation plate just above water input area is right around the bottom of the transom.. but the remainder of the engine is about a foot or 2 lower than the boat...
2 dislikes I'm having, I can go in 2 ft water, but I have to raise the motor quite high and it creates super bow lift...
This is while I'm doing like 1 mph 700-800 rpms... so the hydrofoil the PO has on the motor is useless at those speeds..
Can I trade the lower unit to a short shaft (is that even possible?) or can I bring the motor up?
I think I could probably only remount the cmc plate about 2" higher..
I was considering a jack plate, but don't really like the idea of losing controllability at high-er speeds..
Any ideas? I was putting around in 2 ft of water, I thought I had scraped bottom with the motor, but I realized it was the back end of the hull because of the amount of bow lift from having to bring the motor up far enough to not hit bottom, the boat isn't necessarily "flat" in the water...
2 dislikes I'm having, I can go in 2 ft water, but I have to raise the motor quite high and it creates super bow lift...
This is while I'm doing like 1 mph 700-800 rpms... so the hydrofoil the PO has on the motor is useless at those speeds..
Can I trade the lower unit to a short shaft (is that even possible?) or can I bring the motor up?
I think I could probably only remount the cmc plate about 2" higher..
I was considering a jack plate, but don't really like the idea of losing controllability at high-er speeds..
Any ideas? I was putting around in 2 ft of water, I thought I had scraped bottom with the motor, but I realized it was the back end of the hull because of the amount of bow lift from having to bring the motor up far enough to not hit bottom, the boat isn't necessarily "flat" in the water...