Left Hand Prop on a 27 Fever Questions
08-10-2010 | 06:13 PM
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That's interesting.
One thing I noticed when we went for a ride on your beautiful boat is that you had to lower the port tab a bit while accelerating and at mid range, to keep her level.
With mine, which has a l/h prop (and always had, since the performance report), I don't need that.
Therefore, I assumed that the l/h was more appropriate for the F27 hull.
Now you make me wonder if it's worth trying a r/h prop also on mine!
Or do you think it can be so different from one hull to another?
There aren't many years between our boats, mine is a 07 model and yours a 05 as I recall?
One thing I noticed when we went for a ride on your beautiful boat is that you had to lower the port tab a bit while accelerating and at mid range, to keep her level.
With mine, which has a l/h prop (and always had, since the performance report), I don't need that.
Therefore, I assumed that the l/h was more appropriate for the F27 hull.
Now you make me wonder if it's worth trying a r/h prop also on mine!
Or do you think it can be so different from one hull to another?
There aren't many years between our boats, mine is a 07 model and yours a 05 as I recall?
08-10-2010 | 06:20 PM
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Boat has always had a "slight" list to port. Nothing huge just wanted to see if I could make it "perfect". The last 4 feet of my bottom have been blue printed to perfection. So.....
Instead of a list to port, it listed hard to starboard more than counter acting my initial complaint.
It was bow heavy and a much, much rougher ride and seemed to porpoise at every ripple.
It did not track the same either. Felt like I was always making a left hand turn etc.
I could not have been more surprised by simply changing the prop rotation. Could not take on any other boat wakes without getting wet and just felt very abnormal in every way.
I've spent so much time running this boat that I pretty much notice every little detail.
i just wasn't expecting such a big difference that's all... Suked.
Put it like this: I DON'T EVER go home with 3/4 tank of gas. It just doesn't happen. But it did this time. I wanted out.
Instead of a list to port, it listed hard to starboard more than counter acting my initial complaint.
It was bow heavy and a much, much rougher ride and seemed to porpoise at every ripple.
It did not track the same either. Felt like I was always making a left hand turn etc.
I could not have been more surprised by simply changing the prop rotation. Could not take on any other boat wakes without getting wet and just felt very abnormal in every way.
I've spent so much time running this boat that I pretty much notice every little detail.
i just wasn't expecting such a big difference that's all... Suked.
Put it like this: I DON'T EVER go home with 3/4 tank of gas. It just doesn't happen. But it did this time. I wanted out.
Last edited by SDFever; 08-10-2010 at 06:22 PM.
