How do I improve ride quality - short of buying a new boat!!

[MikDee]

Re: How do I improve ride quality - short of buying a new boat!!

Here's what I've learned, so apparently this boat has a better vee design then I thought, compared to the older models, and should be decent riding. The only thing I can say, is the boats probably roo small for you:

Four Winns Boats Fact Sheet C.A.I.G. Fact Sheets Visit Four Winns website The Winn family purchased the Saf-T-Mate Boat Company in Cadillac, Michigan, in 1975. In 1978, fire all but destroyed the company?s manufacturing facility, but production was quickly reestablished and the company went through a period of great expansion in the 1980s. In 1993, Four Winns developed the patented the Stable-Vee hull design ? resulting in greater lateral stability and improved handling ? a change that revolutionized the boating industry. In 2003, Four Winns announced another major boat design breakthrough: Cross-Stream Architecture. Since 2001, Four Winns has been part of the Genmar family of boat companies. Genmar is the world?s largest builder of recreational boats, with 13 manufacturing facilities worldwide.

 

[coastalcruiser]

Re: How do I improve ride quality - short of buying a new boat!!

Does the lake look like this?

 

[AZSenza]

Re: How do I improve ride quality - short of buying a new boat!!

LOL, I can relate for a number of reasons! My wifes favorite lake, Canyon, obviously has some pretty narrow channels in it and some TOO BIG FOR A LAKE boats, 33 footers and up. The wake they leave going down a 75 yard wide channel is enough to make your teeth crack. We used to have an 84 4Winns 17 footer, Bennet trim tabs and a 350 Chevy I/O, it was FAST and handled like a sports car with the tabs on it. One of the main reasons we got the bigger boat in my signature was the wave factor. I was confident of my skills and taking the waves but the rocking made my wife very nervous! I do have to say the Bennets worked fantastic, they made the boat feel like a 20 footer. Our current 22 foot boat with a 23* deadrise still suffers from the same huge waves from the same huge boats but it takes them like a bigger boat would but sometimes we still have to stop, let the waves do there thing, then get back to business. We are fortunate to have several lakes nearby, a HUGE one is an hour, another big one is 45 minutes and the two we go to are about 20 minutes. Yeah, we live in the desert! Whodda thought!

 

[RotaryRacer]

Re: How do I improve ride quality - short of buying a new boat!!

In 1993, Four Winns developed the patented the Stable-Vee hull design ? resulting in greater lateral stability and improved handling ? a change that revolutionized the boating industry.

The Stable-Vee hull design wan't used on the 180 Freedom in 1993. The Freedom has a pretty traditional V-Hull. In 1994 the Stable-Vee design was used on all the smaller models.

 

[QC]

Re: How do I improve ride quality - short of buying a new boat!!

Transom deadrise is the spec to pay attention to regardless of what they decide to call the hull . . . 20 degrees & up = smooth, 18 degrees & down = not so much but more stable laterally and probably faster.

 

[MikDee]

Re: How do I improve ride quality - short of buying a new boat!!

Transom deadrise is the spec to pay attention to regardless of what they decide to call the hull . . . 20 degrees & up = smooth, 18 degrees & down = not so much but more stable laterally and probably faster.

This makes sense, and I would guess that the OP's boat favors the latter, and is not a bad design for it's size

Shoot, I don't know if my 89' Bayliner Capri "Ski boat" even has as much as an 18* deadrise?
All I know is it has extra strakes in the hull, and gets up on plane in a flash, rides like a washboard most times, and likes to get completely airborne as well occasionally!