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Old 10-19-2017, 07:50 PM
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I have read that these boats will porpoise in flat water at certain speed ranges. I'm sure those ranges depend on the power. I've also read that you can "drive through it" in most cases. Is this an example of the porpoise or is this extreme? Maybe too much trim?

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Trying to post the YouTube link and it's not working.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTK2QWlzy10&feature=youtu.be

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the 26 american offshore is a center pod boat so it will stop porpoise at a much slower speed than a 26 awesome cat because the awesome is a true cat and raises then releases the trapped air then falls back in the water and repeats this untill enough speed is maintained to keep the tunnel packed with air,my buddy,s awesome bounces until about 90 mph,my old 26 ao felt like it was on a cloud of air around 40 mph.
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Thanks and it makes sense. I was looking for info in the 31/3100
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i also had an ao 31,it would hop between 75 and 100 so i just cruised at 105 or below 75.
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Originally Posted by onesickpantera
https://youtu.be/KTK2QWlzy10

Trying to post the YouTube link and it's not working.
try enclosing the url with [ video ] and [ / video ] but remove all the spaces in my html text

would look like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTK2QWlzy10&feature=youtu.be


I believe OSO is no longer allowing us to embed videos in these pages...unless I'm missing sth





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Originally Posted by noli
try enclosing the url with [ video ] and [ / video ] but remove all the spaces in my html text

would look like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTK2QWlzy10&feature=youtu.be


I believe OSO is no longer allowing us to embed videos in these pages...unless I'm missing sth





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Thanks, that worked. I don't see the video icon either. I was trying to do it from my phone and getting pissed!
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So, my main question, is the porpoise/hop in the video "normal" or excessive?
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Looks like he is driving the boat right in the "meat" of the hop zone and maintaining that speed in the video. That amount of hop is what should be expected, but only for a short duration. It will start with less, increase with speed, then reduce until no hop at higher speed. I have seen some cats that were under-powered that could not get out of the hop zone. JMO
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