Progress is being made on the "Half Cocked" 23' CC

[PackRat]

Great looking boat - some lines are just timeless. The average person would have a hard time believing that the boat is 31 yrs old (design even older).

Would be curious what your (or anybody else's) impressions of the QL performance are after some time on the boat in snotty weather. Say particularly in a head sea where you have to slow down, get the bow down and let'er eat. Or are you primarily doing this with engine trim and really only addressing roll angles with the QL's? From a efficiency/fuel burn standpoint, would be nice to do all the trim work with the tabs/ interceptors and leave the engine trim alone I would suspect.

I have worked the last 15 yrs in the ship / boat stabilization buisiness and have some experience with interceptors ( this is what the QL product is) . The performance of these will drop off at lower speeds where traditional trim tabs will keep providing lift at the same speed. Of course you can compensate with engine trim but inboards wouldn't have that option. Wider blades will help provide more lift at lower speeds but hull shape, chines, strakes, etc can limit how long they can be.

There are a lot of boat-specific variables that go into this but just curious what your low speed (say planing speed 16knts? up to 25 knots) impression of performance on your boat would be.

I have a 20sf rehab in process(SLOOOW PROCESS) and am planning on a bracket and the QL product could make things easy on the transom but don't want to give up the abilty to trim the boat at slower speeds.

Thanks