actionmarineguy

97 27' Fountain high x dimension. boat is new to me mild 500hp bb using a stock 3 blade 25p mirage plus. hard to get on plane, under 45 mph it has a tendency to cavitate.
over 45 performs great. any suggestions. It does need more pitch. have to get new prop anyway.

Griff

24 or 26 Bravo 1 4 blade

poiuy10

step up the number of blades OR try moving the cooler back 6 inches.

actionmarineguy

thanks for input have a 28 four blade will try like the cooler idea

ALL_IN!

iTrader: (1)

I can't remember - does the 97 have step or not?? My old 2000 27' ran best with a 24* Bravo I.

actionmarineguy

it does have a step at the stern only about a foot up nothing else. I had a few bahas they never liked the four blade. any fountain i see has a four.

cdail28590

iTrader: (2)

I have a buddy with a 93 27 fountain with a 502 MPI and we tried a 25 mirage, 24 bravo, 25 revolution, a 26 hydromotive and a few other misc props and the 25 revolution was the best but his boat you cant really trim for some reason as it starts to porpoise badly and it ran 65 mph at 4900.

bbladesprops

We have some new 4-SPEED OB/FX props in 15.25 diameter that would work well.

Brett