firehog6305
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Jun 30, 2007
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Hey guys I need some advice. I just purchased a 1979 25ft Apollo Cruiser that had been sitting for 2yrs. After a few week of making sure everything was water ready, including changing gas, oil, filters, tune up and rebuilding the carb. I finally took out for a test drive. It runs great but will not get up on plane. After looking into the prop I noticed that it has a 14.5 dia 19pitch on 3 blades on it. (By the way its a 350 OMC stringer 800) This prop does not seem to be the original one, because the previous owner had to remove the trim tab off of the outdrive because this prop would not fit otherwise. I know the lower the pitch and smaller prop would give it a better hole shot to get up on plane, but how can I find out what prop size I should go with, or what came on the boat from the manufacturer? I did a prop search on some websites and it said 14 to 14.5 and 17 to 19 pitch, but if I did that there is no way that the trim tab would be able to be on the outdrive. What are you're thoughts?