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Originally Posted by Snookerd
Very cool Ken! Any performance #’s??
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It was hard to get real solid numbers across the board but here is what I have. With 4 adults and 110 gallons of fuel on board I had a 31 (36 mph) knot cruise in a light chop at 4300 getting 2.7 nautical. The motor didn't struggle nor fluctuate in rpm at all and with 4 people on board I wouldn't be running the boat much heavier on a dive trip.
My top speed for the prop is kind of skewed as I was running into a very hard ripping tide on the river. At 5800 I was getting a little over 42 knots at about 1.7 Nautical. I wasn't really pleased too much with those numbers until I got to a no wake zone and felt how bad the tide was as we struggled to keep moving forward at a high idle. On open water I think I would have gained at least another 100 rpm and a knot or two. Either way 42 knots was top speed with the 20" Zuke prop.
The real performance gains were in handling, planing and elimination in torq steer and torq over to the starboard side. I'm not hardly using tabs at all and all three riders were in chairs sitting at the stern. No way that would have happened with the Zuke prop. The Bravo 1 also excels in high mounting positions and I am already too low. Going to raise the motor 2 holes and things should be close to perfect.