More Engine and Prop Tweaks

[peterb]

Stripers are pretty much gone for the summer (except for some schoolies that pretty much live year around the tip of the hook by the clam beds). Also, some guys are still hunting down the cows.

The fluking was excellent early last week just off of Seasde. Unfortunately, the water temp took a huge drop (from close to 70 to the mid 50's). This turned off the fluke fishing.

I did the test runs in Barnegat Bay & the inlet.

Peter

[peterb]

Hooray!!!

I put the old 21" pitch x 14 and 7/8" diameter props back on with the engines up two bolts.

Here are some numbers:

Cruise @ 3,500 RPM's = approx 33 miles per hours (getting about 1.8 miles per gallon)

WOT @ 5,400 RPM's = 55 miles per hour

Big difference. Everything (overall ride, WOT speed & gas performance) has improved. I have a feeling that the best long term setup would be to move the engine down one slot, but I am going to leave it as is for now.

Peter

[eggsuckindog]

Pretty hard to argue with those numbers, thats a nice cruise