[Miles Offshore]

Hey Mike, the wheel you are currently turning is the correct wheel according to the literature I got for my 78'. I originally bought a 17/17 with slight cup for mine, but it would only turn up 3800 rpm's instead of the recommended 4200-4400. So I had it cut back to 16x17 with no cup and lost several knots but turned up the correct rpm's(not sure if this was good or not,better for the moter for sure)As far as getting over the hump goes, do you have trim tabs?? I run 12x12 Bennets on the outside chine and seems to help a lot getting out of the hole. I notice they work a lot better with a lighter load than with a full load. I actually would recommend an additional set of 12x12's on the next chine inboard to really work quickly witha heavy load. Tabman suggested this to me when trying to work mine out. Incidently , those 12x12's are as big as you can go on this boat. Anything larger and its wasted area. Hope this helps, sounds like your rig really flies, love having another inboard guy on the in-board.lol-craig