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<blockquote data-quote="Stumpalump" data-source="post: 435837" data-attributes="member: 13140"><p>Awesome thread. Anything over 30mph with a hat and shades gets old in 10 minutes if your in an open boat. You only tweak out the WOT so the cruise is as you say. The boat feels right, the motor gets smooth and into the breeze your not hanging onto your hat or worrying about stuff blowing out. Most pros run two different props or have enough reserve power like you to compensate for extra passengers. The other thing to tweak for is lowest planing speed possible. I do that with tabs or hydrofoils. Boat feels boggy at that speed so you bump it enough that the boat gets light feeling. If all ends well you are at a reasonable cruise RPM, are sipping gas and your motor will last for 1000's of hours. Quite frankly the boat drives the best at cruise. I shoot for 75% throttle at cruise but you have to tweek the planing speed and wot speed to find that bliss. Looks like this boat nails it and that ain't easy to do on a jet Jon. Nice job!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stumpalump, post: 435837, member: 13140"] Awesome thread. Anything over 30mph with a hat and shades gets old in 10 minutes if your in an open boat. You only tweak out the WOT so the cruise is as you say. The boat feels right, the motor gets smooth and into the breeze your not hanging onto your hat or worrying about stuff blowing out. Most pros run two different props or have enough reserve power like you to compensate for extra passengers. The other thing to tweak for is lowest planing speed possible. I do that with tabs or hydrofoils. Boat feels boggy at that speed so you bump it enough that the boat gets light feeling. If all ends well you are at a reasonable cruise RPM, are sipping gas and your motor will last for 1000's of hours. Quite frankly the boat drives the best at cruise. I shoot for 75% throttle at cruise but you have to tweek the planing speed and wot speed to find that bliss. Looks like this boat nails it and that ain't easy to do on a jet Jon. Nice job! [/QUOTE]
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