Its my understanding that when Brunswick told Reggie that you will run Mercury parts. Reggie raised the X on some of his boats to try to recover the lost MPH, due to running the Bravo 1's. Bravo 1's will plane better than the Hydromotive 4 blade, but in most applications on Fountains the Hydromotive is faster on the top end. Gatorone, how did the 5 blades work with your set up? I think you had a 35 twinstep with 575's?

Beak,

The boat is running well , it will run 97 on the GPS with the 4 blades and about 94 with the hydromotives. I can only turn the hydros around 4900 ;should have the new Merc shorties next week to cure the rpm problem.

Just curious how much the drive height might have gone up. The Fountain report says my 29 '02 is 19 1/2 and it has the 26 RH Bravo.

I am thinking about trying a Hydro but don't know if I need a 25 or 26. $490 seems to be the lowest I have seen them sold. Any used X models out there?

I bought the boat in Texas and it ran 75-76 on the speedo at 5300 but dropped to 73-74 @ 5100 at Chicago altitude and water.

Thanks