Boat Maintenance: Blowout

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	Name:	GoneFishin -
	Subject:	Blowout
	Date:	7/28/2009 11:03:07 PM

Maverick made a good point. Too much trim and you will have blowout especially on, I believe, right turns. What is happening is the motor is trimmed too far out and the prop leaves the water. Because there is no resistence the RPM goes way up. This can cause a damaged or blown engine. Trimming out is a way in a smaller boat to increase speed as less of the wet portion (bottom) is in the water. That is, there is less resistence in the water. However, there are limits as to how far to trim. Your size and pitch of the propeller feeds into the equation, as well.

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Proper Pontoon Trim - 4lakelivn - 7/28/2009 10:33:51 AM

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Proper Pontoon Trim - Maverick - 7/28/2009 7:11:56 PM

Proper Pontoon Trim - GoneFishin - 7/28/2009 10:52:35 PM

Blowout - GoneFishin - 7/28/2009 11:03:07 PM

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