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Originally Posted by Bushwacker
Friz, that Sceptre is looking great! If you'll check my recent post, you'll see that I'm currently at 3.75" and need to go up to at least 4" to get AV plate on top of green water with a 30" setback, so that trade factor for AV plate height works out to be about 1.5" to 1.6" per foot of setback. For a 23" (1.91') setback, a height of about 2.865" would be equivalent to where I am now (high confidence setting, 1.5 inch/ft trade factor). The 1.6 inch/ft would put you at 3.056", equivalent to mine at 4". I think I'd set it at about 3" with ability to go down one hole and up a couple of holes. For reference, I'm running a PowerTech ELE4 15X15 4B prop. Blade shape is supposedly similar to the old OMC SST, which worked well on my old motor mounted on transom at with AV plate 1" above bottom of hull. The ELE4 has a fair amount of cup in it and seems to have a pretty decent grip on the water. |
After mounting the motor it looks like my adjustment will work out to be 3" UP to 6" up past the keel. I think I should be able to get the LU plate out of the water no problem. I mounted the motor high as possible while keeping the swim platform as low to the water as possible. It worked out well thanks to help members here on CSC.