Prop Testing - Disappointing!
06-11-2002, 08:05 AM
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Way to go! Hopefully, I'll have as much success when I finally get to doing this. One of my friends runs Spinellis on his 35 and promised that he'd see about finding me a couple of loaners to compare. In or out makes no nevermind for me since it's a single, but are you suggesting I run a righty instead of the lefty?
06-12-2002, 12:29 AM
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Jana,
First off what kind of water are testing in ? Freshwater, saltwater,or brackish?
Reggie tests the boats in brackish water in a river which I'm sure has current, so I'm assuming he does a few runs and then writes down the average.
For some reason Fountains love Hydromotive props. probably because the lift of a Hydro will carry the whole boat. I would stick with a Hydro.
Also what was the humidity like ? The type of air your in is real important, if it is humid the motor is going to be way down on power.
Just bringing up some other variables.
First off what kind of water are testing in ? Freshwater, saltwater,or brackish?
Reggie tests the boats in brackish water in a river which I'm sure has current, so I'm assuming he does a few runs and then writes down the average.
For some reason Fountains love Hydromotive props. probably because the lift of a Hydro will carry the whole boat. I would stick with a Hydro.
Also what was the humidity like ? The type of air your in is real important, if it is humid the motor is going to be way down on power.
Just bringing up some other variables.
06-12-2002, 08:08 AM
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Dredge - thanks for the heads-up. I hadn't been on the Fountain site in a while. I'll see what I can dig up later.
26Scarab - I'm in Houston, so it's hot, humid, warm water - salt in the bay to a bit brackish if I'm in the lake. I'm griping because of the guys in Florida who say they're a good bit faster than me. I'm going to try a few Hydros and Bravos, just to see what works. BTW - the 70 that was on the test sheet was in the middle of winter with a lot less fuel than I usually carry. Maybe she really is just a high 60's boat.
26Scarab - I'm in Houston, so it's hot, humid, warm water - salt in the bay to a bit brackish if I'm in the lake. I'm griping because of the guys in Florida who say they're a good bit faster than me. I'm going to try a few Hydros and Bravos, just to see what works. BTW - the 70 that was on the test sheet was in the middle of winter with a lot less fuel than I usually carry. Maybe she really is just a high 60's boat.
06-12-2002, 09:56 AM
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Here's the link to the prop info on fountain's website.
http://www.fountainpowerboats.com/Te..._sportboat.htm
http://www.fountainpowerboats.com/Te..._sportboat.htm
06-24-2002, 08:23 PM
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Thats interesting, Fountain is saying on 27 w/ 500efi, put a 26 Bravo, My boat is a 2001 w/ 500efi and reggie did prop testing on my boat and went with 26 Hydro????? Guess he is back to all merc stuff??
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