[workinpr0gress]

I run an el-cheapo original Stingray fin on my bracket set-up. It works so well for me that I skipped putting trim tabs on and just run a 15x17 3 blade and might actually go up to a 19. It may not be the norm but it sure runs good on mine.

When I first got the boat wet my only complaint was popping it up on plane and that is a complete non-issue for me now along with having some other advantages. Seems to really help with blowout in hard turns in a sea which I love. Some people don't like that you lose some top end speed which I have seen on other boats. Not with mine, I lost nothing up top. My performance #'s are very good for an old 150 crossflow that sat neglected outside for six years and it surely isn't 150hp, it's not tired it's 22yo, with 40yo technology. I can get 44mph with half fuel and me and the wifey with normal gear, and I'm a few hundred rpm to much at full trim. Really a old OMC 140 V-4 looper would probably run faster and is far from a modern engine. I think the perfect motor for me would be a 25" 90's 60deg. V-6 looper 175 OMC. At only 350 lbs. I could probably lose the foil and the boat run just as good if not better and definitely faster.

I honestly always looked at fins/foils as crutch for various reasons and if it had any weird side affects I would have thrown it in the garbage and got a 4 blade and tabs. The fact that I have had such good results has me changing my thinking on foils/fins on some set-ups. I'll probably be running the foil on this motor til it dies, then we'll see for the next outboard.