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Hilarious!
Originally Posted by Smarty
(Post 3689325)
A man with the thousands of hours of seat experience and builder of boats for nearly 20+ years is allowed a mulligan,
Let's see......, new hull, new power, guess at a X dimension, guess at tab placement/position, trying to go faster than any other single I/O offshore boat, uhhhmmm, what'd I miss :helmet: Been there done that and I'm a broke ass hill billy. The indicator cables/actuators were toast when I re-rigged my twin O/B 24' Sonic and it is spooky w/o them. I have 7 yrs seat time in an identical rig w/Bennett tabs and could make that thing dance in rough and smooth. My butt puckers every time I piddle w/a button w/these :cartman: Short running length, high power (approx 550 for me), elevated X dimension, who knows on trim angle, etc, etc. Every one is OK and corrections will be made. Personally, I am waiting on accurate #'s from test session #2 ;) |
Originally Posted by thirdchildhood
(Post 3689563)
My boat is only 22' 6" and only runs low 80s but I have never needed tab indicators. You drop the tabs only as needed and know where they are by the feel of the boat. It takes time to learn but there are boats like mine running over 90 mph with no tab indicators and these are driver's boat that require a lot of input via constant small changes in tab and trim when driving fast. Mine has been running on the Great Lakes for 7 years now and I have hit my fair share of rogue waves and freighter wakes and not flipped the boat. If these were test drivers pushing it to the limit in turns then I understand how it could happen but if a new design has already overturned at moderate speed then maybe they need to find out why before more of them end up in the hands of inexperienced boaters. JMO and excuse me for telling it like it is.
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Sounds like these led indicators are junk.
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Originally Posted by POWERPLAY J
(Post 3689595)
I've had a tab go down when a passenger unknowingly depressed the button in my 33. Very scary feeling, I thought we were going over and might've if we hit a wave wrong. It can happen in lil boats or big. I'll never drive a boat without indicators. I don't think its safe IMO
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Originally Posted by thirdchildhood
(Post 3689623)
You are right! Wrong use of the tabs can be very scary. I guess I was just defending the guy who said that you should be able to drive a smaller single by the feel of the boat. You have to be careful with the tabs in my boat and use small adjustments at a time. The tab thing seems to have been blown out of proportion in this thread anyway. Indicators would be a convenience but the feel of the boat comes first. This is such a bad-as s little boat. I hope it was just being pushed beyond it's limits during testing. By the fact that no one was seriously hurt and the boat suffered minimal damage it must have flipped at a fairly slow speed. I'm pretty sure that the folks at OL will get to the bottom of it. Glad no one was injured bad.
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Originally Posted by Indy
(Post 3689626)
Sorry to jump on you earlier, I just reacted. There's so many people on the board that jump to conclusions before they know the whole story it just gets on me sometimes. Water being what it is and the same with boats, especially boats that are new to the market, it's hard to apply one set of circumstances to another. The folks at OL seem to be at the top of the game and I'm sure they'll get this nailed in short order.
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Put a lid on it and do all your R&D at the factory at WOT. Expect to have spin outs and possable flips while testing. You are setting up a 105 MPH plus boat that you plan on selling to the public. Yes the cost is high to do this but no one has ever built a 105 MPH pleasure vee at 29' with 600 HP. Just a thought for the future as a starting point for manufactures building high speed pleasure boats.
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Randy knows this from running Kryptonites like I did.
A light 29' single running 80+ is a handful. Add another 20mph and it must be a pretty awesome,scary ride. I used to run the tabs even with the bottom of the boat or slightly down on a following sea to keep the nose flying level. I had a couple times where a diagonal wave would send me slightly off on the launch and the boat would land to one side. With the tabs dragging, it can "correct" you pretty quick. Coming from a 22' Donzi classic to the Kryptonite, I was used to this stuff but it might play differently if I went back to it now from my 38. |
We have no tab indicators on our 48 Sunseeker, in fact the tab buttons are marked "bow down" so you push the button on the port to activate the starboard tab. All by feel.
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I would think not having an indicator would be a better situation than having one that was giving you inaccurate information
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