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#832
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Forget your aches and pains and pay attention here!
At that speed you need to have the boat sitting more on it's tail to get rid of that chine walking you are going thru. The water seemed to be fairly good, and watching the video it looks to me that you have too much hull in the water for the speed you are running, too much hull in the water will create the chine walking.
Try this ............ Mark on your indicators where the tabs are neutral / even with the bottom of the hull, once you get to 70ish set them about 1/2 to 1 indicator mark below that point then do not adjust them at all, from there on up just trim the biotch and sit it on it's tail. Should take that slow chine walk out of it. You will have to play with the tab setting to see what exactly works on your boat, but believe me in that water it should be really solid and not doing that chit.
Think of it this way ............. What you are doing it creating a tri-pod, in a sense, for the boat to run on, the pad bottom and the two tabs, the tabs act like training wheels! Being slightly down keeps some pressure on them and holds the hull in line, and it scrubs way less speed than the chine walking will. Believe me, eight years in that hull at close to 100 it works!!!
Send air fare and I'll learn yer azz in person!
Last edited by RaggedEdge; 09-22-2009 at 05:50 PM.
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There marked but it seems, I may be wrong but with the longer tabs I have once it starts that chit it just gets worse. I am swapping them out and going with the short ones and see if it makes a difference. My thinking is the long ones, mine are 27" are just to long. I'll get running on the pad like you said and she does good but if it starts chine the long tabs start to magnify the effects? She was going good in the video but then she wobbled right before the vid boat and started that chit.
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Forget your aches and pains and pay attention here!
At that speed you need to have the boat sitting more on it's tail to get rid of that chine walking you are going thru. The water seemed to be fairly good, and watching the video it looks to me that you have too much hull in the water for the speed you are running, too much hull in the water will create the chine walking.
Try this ............ Mark on your indicators where the tabs are neutral / even with the bottom of the hull, once you get to 70ish set them about 1/2 to 1 indicator mark below that point then do not adjust them at all, from there on up just trim the biotch and sit it on it's tail. Should take that slow chine walk out of it. You will have to play with the tab setting to see what exactly works on your boat, but believe me in that water it should be really solid and not doing that chit.
Think of it this way ............. What you are doing it creating a tri-pod, in a sense, for the boat to run on, the pad bottom and the two tabs, the tabs act like training wheels! Being slightly down keeps some pressure on them and holds the hull in line, and it scrubs way less speed than the chine walking will. Believe me, eight years in that hull at close to 100 it works!!!
Send air fare and I'll learn yer azz in person!
At that speed you need to have the boat sitting more on it's tail to get rid of that chine walking you are going thru. The water seemed to be fairly good, and watching the video it looks to me that you have too much hull in the water for the speed you are running, too much hull in the water will create the chine walking.
Try this ............ Mark on your indicators where the tabs are neutral / even with the bottom of the hull, once you get to 70ish set them about 1/2 to 1 indicator mark below that point then do not adjust them at all, from there on up just trim the biotch and sit it on it's tail. Should take that slow chine walk out of it. You will have to play with the tab setting to see what exactly works on your boat, but believe me in that water it should be really solid and not doing that chit.
Think of it this way ............. What you are doing it creating a tri-pod, in a sense, for the boat to run on, the pad bottom and the two tabs, the tabs act like training wheels! Being slightly down keeps some pressure on them and holds the hull in line, and it scrubs way less speed than the chine walking will. Believe me, eight years in that hull at close to 100 it works!!!
Send air fare and I'll learn yer azz in person!

#837
Like pete said find the sweet spot and then adjust from there,I can sit mine on the tail for miles and never adjust anything you have the same thing as me plenty of power,the more power in a 320 the better it likes it because you can drive through anything except that 48 Sea Ray cruiser wake over trimmed
.Sorry but you were.Leave the big tabs on it and let me know when to come down and we will figure out the settings and you can get a few quick lessons on how to tame a out of control missle.Pete has alot of seat time in the 320 so he knows what and where to do things but he has been in a beak boat for several years which is a point and shoot thing,so I guess you need to come up here or bring both of us down there to really help figure it out,let me know what you want to do and always remember it is like a 22 footer on steroids.B esafe and let me know what is up,we should get together and compare the difference and change some set ups to see if the extension boxes work for the good or bad of the hull I would love to feel the difference.I will talk to you soon KC,be safe and slowly work up to full speed.
.Sorry but you were.Leave the big tabs on it and let me know when to come down and we will figure out the settings and you can get a few quick lessons on how to tame a out of control missle.Pete has alot of seat time in the 320 so he knows what and where to do things but he has been in a beak boat for several years which is a point and shoot thing,so I guess you need to come up here or bring both of us down there to really help figure it out,let me know what you want to do and always remember it is like a 22 footer on steroids.B esafe and let me know what is up,we should get together and compare the difference and change some set ups to see if the extension boxes work for the good or bad of the hull I would love to feel the difference.I will talk to you soon KC,be safe and slowly work up to full speed.
#840
My 320 is alot more stable as well as faster with the Mercury labbed 4 blade 34s on it the Hydros always seemed a little more loose and did not have the bite that the Merc blades have,I would love to make the trip down lets set something up and lets do it,or better yet bring that thing up here and run it on the Chesapeake Bay.


