Hello all. I tried to find my answer here searching but just couldn't find it. I have a 14' boat (old I don,t know what it is) with a 15hp Evinrude. Problem is is the old transom that was on this boat was hooked. That is to say that it angled down, below the hull. This was a problem for dragging the boat over bars (duckin), but seemed to take away performance as well. My buddy and I replaced the transom and it is parallel with the hull about 1" higher and I can't get the boat to plane.
The cavitation plate is about 1" under the water and I'm sure many of you will tell me it needs to go up. One thing that had me scratching my head was when I had this boat out on the water the other day, it would almost get up to plane, but then make a weird sound. Like it was over revving or the prop was almost in air. It was obviously not functioning right. Tell me what do I do. The fish are waiting.
The cavitation plate is about 1" under the water and I'm sure many of you will tell me it needs to go up. One thing that had me scratching my head was when I had this boat out on the water the other day, it would almost get up to plane, but then make a weird sound. Like it was over revving or the prop was almost in air. It was obviously not functioning right. Tell me what do I do. The fish are waiting.
