[schooner]

Thanks for the responses.

Think I found the issue. The trim tabs were mounted incorrectly and not able to get full negative trim. This leaves about a half inch of plane deflected which will have a small bow-down effect. This is part of the problem, but not the main issue.

The helm and passenger positions are further forward than in a center console combined with the normal heavier weight of the Sceptre's nose makes a bow-down bias will cause relatively more bow steer and greater torque lean.

The biggest contributor to the problem is my selection of a left hand turning motor during my repower. The counter-rotating motor leans the boat to starboard and the lean is accentuated by the weight of the driver at the starboard helm. Instead of the driver weight at the starboard countering the lean of a standard motor, it places both the driver weight and the lean to starboard in a counter-rotating requiring full port-bow-down tab increasing even further the previously mentioned bow-down bias. Moral of the story: A counter rotating motor is nor the way to go in a single engine Sceptre application. This is an expensive lesson.