bimini crickets
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- Aug 13, 2009
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I actually have two issues and they may be related.
I have a 2003 Mariah SC21 with a 4.3MPI merc. So, it has 220HP, which should be enough to get this boat out of the water. If I have four adults and one teenager in the cockpit .... the boat WILL NOT plane. I could go across the wholes lake with the bow in the air and it just will not plane out. If I have someone run up in the front of the cabin as a ballast the boat will finally plane.
I saw in my owners manual that the Alpha outdrive has a spacer that can come out to give you another 1 1/2 degrees of trim-in. I think this would do the trick and I would obviously trim it back out when I got under way. The boat is plenty fast once on plane so I usually have neutral trim position, unless the lake is really bad. I have a feeling if I ask my marina to take those spacers out, they're going to look at me like I have three heads.
I am assuming trim tabs are pretty expensive, so that's probably out of the question.. (the financial committee would not approve)
I have also seen those "wings" you can put on your lower unit. Anyone know how much those should cost and how much they would help my situation ?
The other issue I am having is that I'm using WAY too much fuel. It is injected so I had hoped to get better "mileage" from it. I put thirty bucks in at the Weirs docks and was empty again when I got to Alton bay..(which is about a fifteen minute ride)
My last boat was a bow rider that could plane out no problem and would go for a couple days on 30 bucks...(and gas was more expensive last year)
I know this one is heavier and it is a cuddy cabin, but
is this boat that much of a gas hog or is there maybe something wrong?
thanks for the help....
I have a 2003 Mariah SC21 with a 4.3MPI merc. So, it has 220HP, which should be enough to get this boat out of the water. If I have four adults and one teenager in the cockpit .... the boat WILL NOT plane. I could go across the wholes lake with the bow in the air and it just will not plane out. If I have someone run up in the front of the cabin as a ballast the boat will finally plane.
I saw in my owners manual that the Alpha outdrive has a spacer that can come out to give you another 1 1/2 degrees of trim-in. I think this would do the trick and I would obviously trim it back out when I got under way. The boat is plenty fast once on plane so I usually have neutral trim position, unless the lake is really bad. I have a feeling if I ask my marina to take those spacers out, they're going to look at me like I have three heads.
I am assuming trim tabs are pretty expensive, so that's probably out of the question.. (the financial committee would not approve)
I have also seen those "wings" you can put on your lower unit. Anyone know how much those should cost and how much they would help my situation ?
The other issue I am having is that I'm using WAY too much fuel. It is injected so I had hoped to get better "mileage" from it. I put thirty bucks in at the Weirs docks and was empty again when I got to Alton bay..(which is about a fifteen minute ride)
My last boat was a bow rider that could plane out no problem and would go for a couple days on 30 bucks...(and gas was more expensive last year)
I know this one is heavier and it is a cuddy cabin, but
is this boat that much of a gas hog or is there maybe something wrong?
thanks for the help....