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Ken,
Maybe I am not following you here, but how can you run the engine with the cavitation plate so high? Under usual circumstances isn't it usually close to level with the bottom of the keel?
Are you able to do this because of your prop from outer space?
Peter
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Peter, the norm is 1 inch above (prefered) to 1 inch below
the bottom of the hull. We squeezed it to prevent blow-out
Do not forget my tabs are 9 x 24 inch Bennett's.
The only thing in the water when I'm WOT is the tabs and the boat is chine walking, believe me it gets spooky.
The last thing I want to do is go end over end.
The "Bones" does best when there is a 2 ft chop on full plane. If you look at my T-Top my fabricator lowered the leading edge. Just to keep me from going airborne.
I was lucky enough to have been in a Marina situation in our old warehouse in Ormomd Beach for over 15 years.
I was surrounded by experts in Mercs and Aluminum fabriation. The old warehouse was 10,000 sq ft of nothing but rehabs on all types of boats. The old warehouse which was built in the late 40's had succumbed to dry wood termites and had to come down, hence the 5 acres I sit on now to house my collection of restored boats.
Which includes a 1964 16ft LoneStar, 1974 14ft Lucraft, 1977 15 Whaler, 20ft SeaCraft SF, and a 1969 12 ft Starcraft.
These 2 were the last redo's before demolition. Ken