ziggy
Admiral
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- Jun 30, 2004
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my 75 aristocraft seems very weight sensitive....my usuall load is me and the gf and a cooler. i always lean a bit to port. fuel tank is on aft port. gf don't weight to much, she's on port side. cooler and me on starboard side. weight is pretty even distributed. though i'd guess the fuel and her weight more than me and the cooler. i went river runnin last weekend. had her boy with us. had him on starboard side. he's big. 200#+ i'd guess. that leveled me out pretty good. switced the cooler to port with him onboard. then there's porpising. any trim up i start bounceing. unless it's very calm. then i'm ok and can trim up w/o porpising. at anything other than faiely fast. the trim is most sensitive and i adj. it little from full down. bow rise is tolerable with 2 aboard. three, and it comes up some. but goes down quick . i can get plane easy. this boat is pretty fast too. seems like it to me anyways. 43ish, normal load. flat hull i'd guess would attribute to that. lastly is the beating i take. it's a vhull. but flattens out toward the sides quickly after the v. she still has some deadrise at the stearn. but i've seen more. + it's real flat on the outsides at the back. this thing'll rattle yer fillings out of yer teeth in rough water. granted, i like to go out in rough water. but geez. i've never took such a pounding before on any boat i've been on. only answer to that is slow down. helps to cut the waves off at 45* but even that aint sure fire. slowing down is.
anyone got any ideas as to a fix? my first thought would be smart tabs. but don't know if that'll help my list. specialy since my list would very as to weight distribution. got no idea if they'd help the pounding. and the pounding is my biggest disappointment.....my trisonic (trihull) beat me less than this thing does by a lot..........
anyone got any ideas as to a fix? my first thought would be smart tabs. but don't know if that'll help my list. specialy since my list would very as to weight distribution. got no idea if they'd help the pounding. and the pounding is my biggest disappointment.....my trisonic (trihull) beat me less than this thing does by a lot..........