TinBoats.net
The original aluminum boat site!
How High is to High
- Thread starter leemac
- Start date
Help Support TinBoats.net:
Specknreds
Well-known member
The question is water pressure and cavitation. If your motor maintains sufficient water pressure you are fine. The next thing would be seeing if the prop blows out at WOT and on hard turns.
zerofivenismo
Well-known member
Specknreds said:
I agree with Specksnreds. Mine sits about 1" above bottom of hull. Gets adequate water pressure, and no prop blow out on turns. Not saying yours will be okay. You'll have to run it to find out.
tccanoe
Well-known member
You should be OK. If you are running a small horse power motor you can get away with more. If you have ever run a trolling motor and had it set too shallow, it starts sucking air and creating a vortex. You lower it just a tad and the sucking sound stops. That is the most efficent depth to run a motor. Least drag with out sucking air from above. Even if you are able to get it to break loose in a sharp turn at full throddle, just slow down a little. It's a tin boat.
wasilvers
Well-known member
tccanoe said:
x2 - mine starts to slip free a bit in REAL tight turns - the kind you shouldn't be making in a 35 year old machine. Otherwise, I turn wider or slow down.
Just run it and see.
