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Originally Posted by badhabit
yes it has trim tabs and you have to use them every few seconds and that gets old running 70 miles to the canyon. I am fine with the way it leans in a big turn but I think it should be able to run in a straight line without falling over on its side. we love the boat we just want to get this figured out. I am not saying its not the operator but I have ran boats offshore for 30 years and this is a first for me.
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I'm not sure if the 25 Seafaris run as true with outboard(s) as they do with cast iron in their bellies. Conner and Dave (Blue Heron) both are running sterndrives as originally designed. I had a friend (Jack Roddy) with twin Volvo "pushrod" 165's in it and he removed them and put a pair of 200 Hp Merc 2-S on an Armstrong bracket. It would yodel, but, as you say would just roll over on it's side if someone got up to get a beer out of the cooler. He had tabs but that seemed to have no reaction then an "over" reaction. I had another friend (Dennis Hill) who had a single 225 OMC Sea-bracket motor on it. His seemed to be more stable to me, because the motor was closer to the transom and ran deeper in the water than the twins. A 25' Hydrasport I was in acted similarly to the twin Merc 25 SeaFari - Trim out nicely and pat tab, pat tab, pat tab and wham it would lay over on it's side. Spookey. Conner and Dave have it down, but they have Chevrolet "Ballast".