great white
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If you look to my Sig line, you can see the boat and what I have done to it.
12 foot springbok/Prince craft with about an extra 60 pounds of decking, 8 HP johnson outboard.
Its all set up properly and will plane fine. Somewhere aound 15-20 mph, forgot to GPS it last time. My buddy's 14 deep tin with a 35 can catch me, but not by much.
Thing is; the decking has made it comfy and added lots of storage but the added weight has made it slow (well, slower) to plane out of the hole. 2 full size guys it won't plane at all, but it wants to. It runs like a displacement hull and splits the waves with two anglers and gear aboard . It use to plane with two guys before the decking, but took a while to get there.
Once up on plane I can back off full throttle and stay there with a bit less twist, as you would expect.
Compounding the issue is I'll soon be dropping a 2hp on the back and a battery in the nose. 20 lbs for the outboard, at least the same for the battery.
I need the 2 HP since we fish ocean water fairly often. Its not just a flat water tin. Fair seas and only a couple miles out, but rowing to shore is not exactly an attractive "git back" option when wind and tide are against you. I'm always with another boat, but they are usually similarly powered and towing would be a chore at best. You also don't want to be under tow in a 12 foot tin when a 2-3 foot chop sneaks up on you, you need your own propulsion. My 8 HP has never let me down, but there's always a first time....
A bigger outboard seems like the obvious answer and the hull is rated for a 15 hp, but for personal and economic reasons I want to stay with the 8 HP. Translation: no money and it's dad's old outboard.
I'm thinking about trying a foil on the anti ventilation plate. Right now the vent plate just skims the water surface so a foil would be out (or just touching) the water.
What I am mainly after is the quicker to plane claims that they all seem to make.
Planing at lower speeds would be nice, but I can't see how it would do this on a proper setup like mine where the plate is essentially out of the water.
My boat doesn't do a crazy "nose up" out of the hole for more than a couple seconds so its not a big deal there.
Anyone use a foil on their itty bitty tinny?
Help? Hurt? No difference? Type of boat and engine size?
Please no uninformed opinions from what you have read. I would only like to hear from those that have tried them. Whether good or bad.
12 foot springbok/Prince craft with about an extra 60 pounds of decking, 8 HP johnson outboard.
Its all set up properly and will plane fine. Somewhere aound 15-20 mph, forgot to GPS it last time. My buddy's 14 deep tin with a 35 can catch me, but not by much.
Thing is; the decking has made it comfy and added lots of storage but the added weight has made it slow (well, slower) to plane out of the hole. 2 full size guys it won't plane at all, but it wants to. It runs like a displacement hull and splits the waves with two anglers and gear aboard . It use to plane with two guys before the decking, but took a while to get there.
Once up on plane I can back off full throttle and stay there with a bit less twist, as you would expect.
Compounding the issue is I'll soon be dropping a 2hp on the back and a battery in the nose. 20 lbs for the outboard, at least the same for the battery.
I need the 2 HP since we fish ocean water fairly often. Its not just a flat water tin. Fair seas and only a couple miles out, but rowing to shore is not exactly an attractive "git back" option when wind and tide are against you. I'm always with another boat, but they are usually similarly powered and towing would be a chore at best. You also don't want to be under tow in a 12 foot tin when a 2-3 foot chop sneaks up on you, you need your own propulsion. My 8 HP has never let me down, but there's always a first time....
A bigger outboard seems like the obvious answer and the hull is rated for a 15 hp, but for personal and economic reasons I want to stay with the 8 HP. Translation: no money and it's dad's old outboard.
I'm thinking about trying a foil on the anti ventilation plate. Right now the vent plate just skims the water surface so a foil would be out (or just touching) the water.
What I am mainly after is the quicker to plane claims that they all seem to make.
Planing at lower speeds would be nice, but I can't see how it would do this on a proper setup like mine where the plate is essentially out of the water.
My boat doesn't do a crazy "nose up" out of the hole for more than a couple seconds so its not a big deal there.
Anyone use a foil on their itty bitty tinny?
Help? Hurt? No difference? Type of boat and engine size?
Please no uninformed opinions from what you have read. I would only like to hear from those that have tried them. Whether good or bad.