Mine likes weight in the bow,smoother slightly faster ride, but I wouldn't say it rides bow high. Normally rides flatter than most boats I've owned. usually don't use significant tabs. I tend to use more tabs late in a long trip when the water supply stored far forward is exhausted. Really notice a heavy passenger moving forward when the bow is light. When I'm loaded heavy, I've got somewhere around 300 lbs aft of the transum, between kicker, jerry cans of fuel, platform and stored dive gear plus about 200 lbs of water weight and grocerys as far forward as I can get them. . Light load most of that is gone, but there is still 200 lbs aft of the transum. That really should not be all that different from the weight distribution with full fuel of your rig. I'm thinking there is some connection between your boats tendency to lean all the time and the bow up thing. Not sure what that could be, but neither match my experiance. Motor trim, motor height, lifting prop, trim tab, something weird? How slow will yours stay on a plain? It should go down to around 13 mph, tabs and trim down.
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