pussiwillow
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Hey guys I got a 1232 flat fully decked, with wood and boat with motor is just shy of 300 pounds. I picked up a low compression 84' 15 hp Johnson, pulled the head milled .015 off the head as it was warped, I'm at 135 psi both cylinders, hell ya!, anyways, I put a jack plate on as my boat has a 12 inch transom and my engine is 16 inch so I got that squared away, I did a shake down test this weekend with me, 130 pounds and a buddy 200 pounds, our gear maybe 40 pounds and 3 gallons of fuel, 24 pounds. The boat sits nice and the engine is a beast I was cruising just under plane 5 mph or so and I would get the throttle pretty aggressively and this thing puts you in the seat and pulls hard but runs out leg and pegs out maybe 18 - 20 mph on glass, as fast as my uncles 12 foot heavy gauge semi v with an old merc 9.8 with no jack plate fully loaded. This doesnt seem fair as I got more power and pretty equal weight with his buddy and his gear and the more weight his boat is. I would like to take my really hard acceleration and turn it into smooth rev with a nice top end, from what everyone says to me I should be pushing near 25 mph, this is my first boat and don't know much about props, what should I be looking for in a prop, my current is a 3 blade 9.5 x 10. My uncle runs a 2 blade but don't know size or pitch, so I'm looking to you guys to help me out s little, just want to get a good speed instead of heavy acceleration, thanks guys!