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I appreciate your reply. I was not able to take a ride on my new boat upon delivery due all this COVID stuff going on this year.This is why a shake out cruise with your salesman before you take delivery is so important. Let your dealer know. Probably something very simple ie motor mounting, maybe even trimmed wrong, etc.
That is what I thought at first as I experienced that with my old boat, checked it no weeds, wish it had been the problem.This is dumb, but have you checked the prop for weeds? My old 115 Yamaha / 2275 RCW cavitated and wouldn't gain speed when it got weedy. The fix was to slow down, pop it in reverse for a couple seconds to clear weeds, and we were good to go.
If not weeds, it's probably prop-related.
As far as I can see standard 25 inch round logs , no lifting strakes.What kind of logs do you have below?
I saw a post a while ago where someone installed a 19 inch pitch prop and a whale tail on their boat and they said the problem was gone.This is dumb, but have you checked the prop for weeds? My old 115 Yamaha / 2275 RCW cavitated and wouldn't gain speed when it got weedy. The fix was to slow down, pop it in reverse for a couple seconds to clear weeds, and we were good to go.
If not weeds, it's probably prop-related.
Do you know if there is way to measure to see if it is too low or too high?Sounds like motor is too low. Best of luck! Not a fun thing to deal with.
I am not the most knowledgeable on that with a two log. Someone here will chime in, there are a lot of knowledgeable people here.Do you know if there is way to measure to see if it is too low or too high?
Sounds like the problem is a combination of a poor prop choice for a pontoon AND your 25" logs lifting the prop out of the water at speed. Merc makes an excellent aluminum prop for your application in both the Spitfire and Quicksilver Nemesis (usually less expensive) lines. We run the pontoon specific Nemesis 13p on our Yamaha because it's way better than any basic 3-blade (although Yamaha does have a version of the Talon that seems to be good for pontoons).Wrong prop is my first guess. Ask a knowledgeable person on the subject (I always recommend Ken at Prop Gods, super smart and responsive) and see if your current prop is in the ballpark (diameter, # of blades, etc). Could also be a spun hub.
Once you cross prop issues off the list, start going through other things that could be inducing drag - growth on the toons, water in toons, etc. Then try motor height adjustment, may be too high.
Ideally you can find a good dealer/mechanic who won’t feed you the “pontoons are turbulent” B.S. Seriously if this were inherent to pontoons no one would buy pontoons. Just someone that doesn’t want to try and help you. It can be fixed! Keep it up, you will get there.
Wrong prop is my first guess. Ask a knowledgeable person on the subject (I always recommend Ken at Prop Gods, super smart and responsive) and see if your current prop is in the ballpark (diameter, # of blades, etc).
Ideally you can find a good dealer/mechanic who won’t feed you the “pontoons are turbulent” B.S. Seriously if this were inherent to pontoons no one would buy pontoons. Just someone that doesn’t want to try and help you. It can be fixed! Keep it up, you will get there.
Do you know if there is way to measure to see if it is too low or too high?