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Old 08-13-2007, 05:56 PM
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On my smaller 23' hull, I prefer to keep the tabs fixed at 2-4* negative,
and utilize the drive trim to control the hulls attitude.
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Old 08-13-2007, 07:26 PM
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As already posted, their is no one setting, depends on Load in the boat, fuel, passengers, gear, following seas or running into them, or quartering. The object is to stay on top of the chop, use enough tab to keep the boat level, and not have the bow digging in. No matter what trim settings you use, if you are not carrying enought speed to keep you from falling between the swells it wont ride smooth. It will be a matter of experience, take you time and work up to speed until you gain confidence in what the boat will do.

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Old 08-18-2007, 10:26 AM
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First of all tab settings 3 is not necessarily the same on all boats you need to set your drive and tabs to neutral while on the trailer and mark the indicators and use that as reference. All cables are capable of different adjustments to give different readings.
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I run the drives at 2 and the tabs at 4 but this is a case by case basis
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On a twin step if you tuck the drives in (-) remember to bring them to neutral before you turn. Neutral is when drives are Vertical to the imaginary line from the bottom of the first step to the transom this is your running surface.You should be able to run this boat in most cases at neutral trim and bring the tabs down.Try to turn with negative (in) trim and boat can spin.Oh and wear your kill switches
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