[seabass08]

Sea trialed the boat this week. The difference is huge. The boat sits much higher in the water now and the water line is 3-4" lower than it was. He did a ton of work to the boat including replacing the transom, building the new bracket that extended the running surface of the hull, moved the scuppers to the transom,re-rigged the engine, pumps, trim tabs, moved the plug to the bottom of the hull, re-sprayed the transom and rear portion of the hull sides in Awlcraft 2000 to match the existing paint, moved both the leaning post and center console forward about 12", etc... The boat now sits much more level in the water now. It planes at a much lower speed but I didn't have the electronics hooked up so we didn't get speed and mpg data yet. The motor needs to be raised up one hole so I will update when I have more data if anyone is interested. The improvement in how the boat runs and handles is much more than I was expecting. The old waterline/scumline was in the middle of the blue boot stripe. pics to follow...