My 23

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Peter B and Fr. Frank,

Thanks on the swordfish, yes that fish (the big one), cost me thousands of after bought gear. It was my second ever, the first was about an hour before that and weighed about 10 lbs. That one took 2 1/2 hours on 80W 80lb test 21lbs of drag.

Fr. Frank you are absolutely correct with the toe-in/out terminology. My apologies. I wasn't thinking about it referencing the front of the boat. Normal outward prop rotation has TOE IN- the lower units are closest at the leading edge. I'm glad you mentioned that before I possibly misled Peter B or someone else.

I will strongly disagree with you on the assumption that almost nobody rotates props in. Go look at any Jupiter, Island Runner, and I think Venture does it too- right from the factory. It is also done quite often on cigarette and other go fast boats. IF you do decide to try it and do not change from (corrected) TOE IN to TOE OUT you will have less than desirable handling characteristics.

As far as it not working, or yielding negative results, I can only say how it works on my setup. If anyone really wants to see and/or feel the difference, I invite you to come for a ride, I'm in North Palm Beach, FL.

PeterB, let me know how the rev 4's do. I'm so pleased with how my boat is running now I've put the props on the back burner and just ordered the new 1K 20 degree tilted transducer. When I put in the first 20 degree ducer, two years ago, Airmar only made it in single element 600W. The new one is three elements, 1K, and substantially larger. The bottom deadrise step of the 23 is almost exactly 20 degrees so I've had good performance with the 600W- 15-1800 ft 2200 once. Can't wait to try the new one.

S