OK this may be odd but I figure there has to be someone on here that can do something with this. Last season I was having a problem with my trim tabs. They were barely moving and my fuel consumption seemed to be ridiculous. This season I topped off the resevoir for the hydraulic pump and now the tabs move, barely breaking the plane of the hull of my boat. I called Bennett and they said that I should only be getting 2.5" of movement out of the cylinders. It appears I am getting that.
So now I see a much better improvement on my fuel consumption this year so far but I am curious if I am trimming my boat properly. Can anything be gathered from this video?
Boat is a 29' 82 Chris Craft 281 Catalina
Engines are 2 x 350 Merc crusiers? inboard
RPM at the time was 2800 for both engines and speed was around 17.5knots (I still am unsure what RPM is optimum for these engines and thinking my boat should really be going faster). Loaded with only me, my wife and two small children that were below deck.
Hmm, when I look at thread I only hear audio and see no video so I am including a link to the video on YouTube just in case
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPQEGwBQjb0&feature=plcp
So now I see a much better improvement on my fuel consumption this year so far but I am curious if I am trimming my boat properly. Can anything be gathered from this video?
Boat is a 29' 82 Chris Craft 281 Catalina
Engines are 2 x 350 Merc crusiers? inboard
RPM at the time was 2800 for both engines and speed was around 17.5knots (I still am unsure what RPM is optimum for these engines and thinking my boat should really be going faster). Loaded with only me, my wife and two small children that were below deck.
Hmm, when I look at thread I only hear audio and see no video so I am including a link to the video on YouTube just in case
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPQEGwBQjb0&feature=plcp