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US1 Fountain 09-08-2010 04:45 PM

Your bilge pump is running. :)

pullmytrigger 09-08-2010 07:24 PM


Originally Posted by Rookie17 (Post 3202372)
I have a few Dodge Nationwide NASCAR engines laying around

really...do you have any sb2's ?.....Id love one for my track day Cup car

mcprodesign 09-08-2010 07:40 PM


Originally Posted by Wildman_grafix (Post 3202603)
I agree

That boat sits nice. Just some of them are too steep of an angle and the chicks covered in oil keep sliding off the sun deck :D
// I like the docking capability of a twin for sure.. Forgot about that.. I just spear mine in at 1 knot or so sometinmes if i have too. It really does not want to trun left in reverse period. On windy day's you only really get one shot at docking a single.. It's hard but doable :)

US1 Fountain 09-08-2010 08:32 PM


Originally Posted by mcprodesign (Post 3202892)
... It really does not want to trun left in reverse period.

My 27 was the same way. It would just crab walk straight backwards in reverse even with the wheel cranked to full lock, but the other direction it would spin within it's own footprint. Never could figure that out.

SDFever 09-09-2010 01:14 AM


Originally Posted by US1 Fountain (Post 3202966)
My 27 was the same way. It would just crab walk straight backwards in reverse even with the wheel cranked to full lock, but the other direction it would spin within it's own footprint. Never could figure that out.

Prop rotation

mapism 09-09-2010 02:36 AM


Originally Posted by US1 Fountain (Post 3202966)

Originally Posted by mcprodesign (Post 3202966)
... It really does not want to trun left in reverse period.

My 27 was the same way. It would just crab walk straight backwards in reverse even with the wheel cranked to full lock, but the other direction it would spin within it's own footprint. Never could figure that out.

Yep, what SDFever said.
I guess you both guys were spinning a LH prop, right?
When reversing, a LH prop spins clockwise, "pulling" the stern to stbd. This contrast the effect of the wheel steered to port, eventually making the boat go more or less straight.
When turning to port in reverse, the two effects work jointly - that's why the boat spins within it's own footprint.
You can improve the steering to port in reverse of a single LH prop boat by fully lowering the port flap and fully raising the other one, but that makes the whole maneuver a bit hairy.
With a RH prop, the effects are all the same, just the other way round.

Wildman_grafix 09-09-2010 08:15 AM

Kind of like our old direct drive ski boats that I grew up on.

Rookie17 09-09-2010 10:06 AM


really...do you have any sb2's ?.....Id love one for my track day Cup car
No SB2's, sorry. Just ex Evernham Nationwide Dodges. I have more than I need, email me if you can stomach putting a Dodge in your Chevy :) Might surprise you how cheap I'd sell them :)

Shoot me an email if you have interest so we can be respectful and this thread can stay on topic...

I'm leaving today to race at Infineon for the weekend so might take me a day or so to get back to you. But Blackberry email is the shiznit!

US1 Fountain 09-09-2010 10:54 AM


Originally Posted by SDFever (Post 3203131)
Prop rotation

I thought that to be the case, but I never had this issue with any of my other single engine boats.

vegaskeith 09-10-2010 08:34 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-pVk...eature=related




Put this SB2 in it!


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