View Poll Results: How many blades on your propellors?
Three blades on Bravo drives
33
14.80%
Four blades on Bravo drives
107
47.98%
Five blades on Bravo drives
29
13.00%
Something other than Bravo drives
52
23.32%
Paddles, jets, oars, other
2
0.90%
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Blades on propellors
08-03-2004 | 08:03 AM
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From: Austin
Re: Blades on propellors
Originally Posted by Semper Fi
What boat do you have? What pitch props? I am running 29 3-blade Mirage on a 33' Powerplay
23 pitch mirages on a 27' twin engine baja.
09-23-2004 | 05:38 PM
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Re: Blades on propellors
to keep with the topic we run 4,5,and 6 blades on our svl . race boat.
the 6 blades out accelerate everything else in our testing . but we have found that this changes with the prop height ( X - dimension) on a pleasure boat with a deep X the less blades that you can still get on plane will normally be faster however if you start lifting the drive height the slippage will go through the roof so if you add blades you can go higher and the net result is a gain ( you seem to gain more from lifting the drive to reduce drag than you lose from increased slippage and as I said the 5 and 6 blades take care o;f that)
Larry SVL #5 wild ride
the 6 blades out accelerate everything else in our testing . but we have found that this changes with the prop height ( X - dimension) on a pleasure boat with a deep X the less blades that you can still get on plane will normally be faster however if you start lifting the drive height the slippage will go through the roof so if you add blades you can go higher and the net result is a gain ( you seem to gain more from lifting the drive to reduce drag than you lose from increased slippage and as I said the 5 and 6 blades take care o;f that)
Larry SVL #5 wild ride
01-15-2006 | 11:23 PM
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From: Omaha~LOTO
Re: Blades on propellors
Originally Posted by caveman
#6 Merc 5 blades here 17x30
Excellent midrange and holeshot
But top speed not yet compared to my #6 Merc 4 Blades
These are good for washing bridges also
Excellent midrange and holeshot
But top speed not yet compared to my #6 Merc 4 Blades
These are good for washing bridges also
Very agressive looking and some what prehistoric...
01-15-2006 | 11:30 PM
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Re: Blades on propellors
Originally Posted by Strip Poker 388
Why are all these people running 3 blades?
