Hey Sangerwaker, I believe that I have the exact same boat that you have. I've got a 1996 Barefoot Sanger with a 200 outboard. Your picture looks the same. <br /><br />Oh, my point. Last weekend while pulling the rugrats tubing I lost my prop. Ziiiiiiing.... Major buzzkill. About 80-100 feet of water and I'm thinking my odds of retreiving it are about as good as my odds of a 3-some with Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie.<br /><br />I was running a 19 pitch Hi-5. It appears that they are running around $550. Ouch. But before I go spending that kind of dough I thought I would do some research and see if there is any other prop out there that may be better. I get (had) a great holeshot and decent topend with the Hi-5. Right now I'm running a friend's 23 pitch 3-blade which blows bottom end, but gets up and goes after I plane off. <br /><br />Just wondering if maybe I should be looking at a different pitch or different prop altogether. Any insight?<br /><br />One more thing. A friend of mine has a 97 Malibu Flightcraft with the same 200 outboard. We run exactly the same from takeoff to topend. And I mean exactly the same. If we fill them both with gas and have a third person hop back and forth between boats that makes the difference in which boat is faster. It's a friendly competition, but it would be really nice to be just a little bit faster without giving up the pulling power.
