Thanks masi242 i'm pretty certain after posting this thread listening to a few guys I did not have enough trim in it, I wish I could take it out this weekend but I can't I'm going snowmobiling LOL !!!! I hope Phragle and everybody else remembers this post I sure would like some more pointers this spring !

Awesome you own helmets. Bring one when you meet and go for a run with Phragle.You will thank me later for this.

More trim or more head, either one will get you where you want to be.

One thing I know about Rob, (Phragle), He'll always tell ya the truth as long as it's what you want to hear and he'll be there with ya thru thick and thin, (as long as it don't get to rough).

His mom will be though. :lolhit:

Silly question, doesn't the 242 have a trim limit switch??? if so, you should basically trim it until it stops trimming up at WOT assuming it is set correctly. If you have a trim limit switch, you will also have a trailer button on the controls which will allow you to raise the drive the rest of the way up. Once the drive hits the limit switch you can tweak with the tabs for conditions.

It does, trim & trailer ! It also has a gauge. I'll discribe it as looking like a fuel gauge with three marks on it , full, half and empty. Once on plane I was keeping the trim just above the empty line, sounds like this was my problem !

I bet that is your problem, that boat from 3500rpm and up should be trimmed all the way up with the trim button unless your load makes the front start porposing, then a touch down. As already stated, you will feel the boat loosen up/free up when it's trimmed far enough. I've had several boats with a limit switch, most of them were set perfectly. I did have one boat that liked one "bump" of the trailer button once it was all the way up on the trim switch.

Make sure your tabs are all the way up the first time you try this to eliminate them from the equation until you get the feel for it. (you may want them down some to get on plane, but then raise them to get them out of the way).

Enjoy.

Good Luck!

I'll be damn, so you're saying that trim switch is preset from the factory basically and should be all the way up while driving after 3500 or so ? I know I never had it trimed that much ! Now it's making a bunch of sense when I had the 22 pitch 4 blade on there it would only rev to 4000-4100 but if I had some trim in it it may have rpm'ed closed to where I needed it to be !!

Yes, the trim limit is pre-set to keep you from "over-trimming" the boat. To answer your second question -- it depends on the boat. Though I have been on lots of them I personally have no driving experience with a 242, but on every boat I have had, past ~3/4 throttle I always ran them all the way up. The only exception was if I had 3 or 4 people on the back bench (or lot of weight in general in the back) it could porpoise/bounce then you just trim down a hair until it stops, or in your case trim the tabs down a hair.. I don't even look at my gauge anymore ( I don't have a limit switch ), just go by feel. That will come.

My guess is trimmed all the way out on the switch it will put you just above 1/2 trim on the gauge.