daugen
Epic Contributor
Drew, I hope your boat buying gets better. I guess I don't understand, if the boat doesn't make speed, do you simply drop it, look for another, or try to re price it? Is it a combination of factors, unknown, or up to the seller?
The seller is trying to make it work, putting the original three bladed props back on instead of the four bladed ones the prior owner put on.
It's not like the boat is doing 18 knots when it should do 20. It does 11 when it should be doing 14 and falls off plane easily. Price isn't the issue, the question is do I want to go 11mph. The problem is that I could go 9mph with engines one quarter this size using half the fuel. I really want to do 14 knots/16mph to get anywhere reasonable locally in about six hours of running. If I wanted to go slow, I would have bought a true trawler.
I expect to be called tomorrow to take another run on Thursday with the new props. I told the broker it either did 12 knots at 2400 rpm (full cruise on a 2800 rpm engine) or it just wasn't the right boat for me. More importantly it had to stay up on plane easily. Hard to understand if you haven't owned a powerboat but planing boats need to stay up on the water on the aft section of the boat, not fall down where they are less efficient.