I just took my new 2000 Top Gun out after owning a 31 seahawk with arnesons and no bow lift. The new cig has a lot of bow lift. How should the tabs / drives be when getting on a plane and where should they be move to at cruzing and top speed?

I start with mine at 1for tabs and 0 for drives it depends on how big the waves and speed as far as when crusing but tabs usally around 4 or 5 at 60-70 and the drives at 2 maybe 3 mine is a twin step so it might be different.

Congrats on the new boat. but where are the pics?

Thanks
0 meaning down all the way to to get on a plane then moving tabs up to 4-5 then moving drives out 2-3at cruising.

Where do you have the drive at WOT or fairly close to it?

This is what i'm trying to figure out! I had the drives all the way down and a little tab about 6-7. Seemed to be to much bow lift.

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i have a 35 t/s... and its NOTHING like that

what props? spun in or out? cruise speed? WOT?

Didn't the owner you bought it from show you how to run it? He is "Shweeng" on OSO. The guy he bought it from is "Cig42X." His name is John.

Yea but it was on a lake and it was not very big. I ran it in the ocean last weekend by Myself with a lot of chop. The boat I'm use to has no bow lift at all. I just need a little direction thats all.

If the boat porpoises a lot I wouldn't run a lot of trim and keep the tabs around even when cruising, this will give you minimum bow lift. When running WOT I would trim it to 5-6 and lift the tabs up. A good idea would be when the boat is on the trailer mark on the indicators where neutral and even are with the drives and tabs compared to the bottom of the boat. Hope this helps.

Thank you. I have marked the indicators. The only thing I'm not understanding is when you refer to "even" is that even with the angle of the hull (because the tab is mounted 1" above the bottom of the hull) or pushed down so the trailing edge is even with the bottom of the hull.