Re: aluminum boat bounce
da-cat - You say you just purchased this rig, so this boat and set up is new to you, this is what concerns me. I don't want to say this - but I wish you would have a lot of running time with a set-up like this and push the boat to it's performance limits and would have experienced close calls or situations where you knew the dangers. That's when one really understands what can happen.<br /><br />I think this is not what you want to hear. #1 - If the motor hp is over the boats rating, change it! But it sounds like you know what it needs. What you have done with the motor tilt and your thought of putting a bag of cement in the front is the best to do. If that's what it needs. For safety sake you need to add weight to the front.<br /><br />The way it is now doing all the other tricks will make the boat perform much better but the front is still to light. When you hit big waves, wakes, or get wind or wind gusts under or hit something, the boat could flip over or it will pick the front end up and put it in another direction and that could knock you off the seat or flip you out or flip the boat.<br /><br />But Wow! - when you get it right, this boat should be the best fun there is! Wear your life vest, use the cutoff switch lanyard if you have it and tighten the tension on the tiller steering.