[Fr. Frank]

Originally Posted by flyingfrizzle

Now if he has big k trim tabs and could keep it from walking all over the place he probably could get it to behave in the 80's but me I wouldn't want to run it at wot.

Now, on the other side of things I bet he can cruse at 60 mph at 4800-5000 rpms all day if he can keep the fuel in it. Sometimes having more power isn't about wot but about being able to run a nice fast speed at 2/3 throttle.

I rigged a new 20' SF back in the mid-80's with a Bridgeport 2.4L on a jack-plate, with 12" K-planes, and it could touch 70mph, but it was right on the edge of uncontrollable from about 62 and up, and even at 58, a hard crosswind gust would start it chine-walking.

Fast, but not so much fun cleaning your underwear after a full-throttle run. I rigged that thing for a young (twenty-something) female attorney in West Palm Beach. She kept the boat less than a year before trading it in on a 31 Tiara-Pursuit.