Looking good! I can't believe how little the impact shook the boat. I didn't see you adjusting the tabs or trim, I'm guessing you had them set close to nuetral?

Thanks everyone!

There's still some work left on it that I will take care of during the winter. I needed to prioritize to get it running.

I will keep you updated!

We didn't feel it what so ever, I just heard a small "ting"-sound and lost thrust.

I had it trimmed around neutral and it was still was riding very high.

I accidently got a Merc trim tab pump for my drive trim and it's way too slow (the drive trim pumps are high flow versions of the exact same pump), so I didn't want to trim it out too far since I wouldn't be able to get it back down fast enough if I needed to. This is one of the things I will take care of during the winter.

So far I have used the tabs only when going on and off plane.

Yes, it took me about seven months. I wanted to be sure it would work so I didn't want to doing too radical changes to the bottom - keeping it simple.

Right now I'm planning on extending the inner strakes quite a bit longer, doing the extended parts about 1/2-1" narrower. I was worried about the boat over planning and dipping the bow but that's absolutely no issue. It rides high and very well but with longer strakes I believe it will ride even higher and better - and faster.


I have seen some pics of 24 Superboat bottoms with the strakes going almost all the way to the transom - anyone have any more info about this?

Here's my bottom rebuild thread
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/f...4-pantera.html

Great job Tomas ..... is the boat is named after you ?

Thanks Mike,

Hahaha no it's not named after me but since my daughters name is Minna it would be a great name.

It's our future sponsor www.tomina.se

Yeah fast trim is a good thing! So, in that video you are running with the tabs all the ways up?

Yes, tabs all the way up.

The Rev 4 (RIP) was an awesome prop - luckily it was standard out of the box.

Is that Jan's boat?

Jan came and looked at mine for his friend while he was in the states last year and said that he had a 24' that they raced with a 496.

Couple pics of my old one is Sweden at a poker run a few weeks back...