Re: Hydrofoils on lower units?
Geeze guys, the guy asked a pretty simple question.
Now granted, I am also just a no posting, bottom feeding, one striper who, on occasion asks some of you exalted 50,000 post, grand admirals a simple question and get the feeling that some give answers not to give insight, but to show others how much of a genius they are. Granted, it is a fairly simple question, but to have the first 5 responses directed at how the question should not have been asked seems either self serving or "what the heck are you grunts doing playing in OUR sand box?" But I digress.
A whale tail, foil, or what ever you want to call it is a SIMPLE, INEXPENSIVE DEVICE that is designed to correct minor problems in the relationship of the hull, motor and surface conditions AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Sometimes a boat is loaded one way and is not optimal. Sometimes a water surface is not optimal. Sometimes a motor won't be set up correctly for a certain condition. All are variables that change from day to day. You can take any boat, put as much money as you can stand into it, and get what ever you are looking for under any particular condition. But the water isn't a highway. The surface you're operating on is constantly changing. It changes, you change something to reacquire that optimal condition AT THAT TIME.
But most of us peons have what we have. We simply would like to correct some undesirable condition for the majority of the conditions we encounter. What a whale tail does is level out the peaks and valleys, to a small extent, to make our boating experience more pleasurable for what we are doing or what we need to do. If the trim pin in one hole gives you too much bow down, and raising the pin to the second hole gives you too much bow up, a foil will kind of split the difference. Will it help a 300 pound motor on a 15 ft' boat....no. Will it correct, by providing a small amount of transom lift, a bow up attitude on a fishing boat that tops out @ 23 MPH... probably. Will it help a 70MPH Bass boat, probably not. Of course, if someone puts a $40.00 piece of plastic on a $70,000 boat, the problem is probably NOT the boat.
What ever the case, wouldn't it make more sense to welcome the question as a vehicle to share knowledge, with the intent of enhancing the questioners experience rather than as a self serving platform to spout irrelevancies in the pursuit of ones own ego enhancement?
Kind of reminds me of the kid who asks his parents where he came from. After 2 hours of discomfort over the discussion of the birds and the bees, the kid thanks them and says," I was just curious. Bobby says he is from Cleveland".
Please go easy on us newbies. We might just be the future of what you guys have spent your whole lives learning. However, WE may be the ones teaching YOUR grandchildren.
