Just ordered a 2009 E TEC 200.....need jack-plate/trim tab help

[bigbore]

big bore, i don't remember how i found ...scream and fly!

but all my boats have given me memories, and some wounds.
before the 18 outrage, i had a 15 whaler with a 70 omc...juiced a bit, and i ran a 23 sst rx...silverstreak on that 70, and it would pull 6000.
the little whaler would lift, and the spray would clear the tri hull sponsons, but on the 18 outrage, running the 235 high enough to get rpm, if you turned at speed it would hook big time.
I worked at whaler dealers for 10 years, and really like the older ones.
I have no complaints with my e-tec 200 small block and recommend them and it pushes my alli rr just fine

Sounds like u had a rougher go at it than me,sounds like good times though buddy (4 the most part),sweet.

[goodride]

now....BIG..I'm just letting you know what happened to me, and my experience with a 86 whaler 18 outrage..

i dreamed about that boat... and I pushed it for speed.

the same year "back THEN" 1986

a guy in my neighborhhod, named "BARNEY" had the same new boat
barney is...action marine.hollywood florida..

any how i had my 235, then i ran a badazz flatback 150 gt ported ...and thats when i spun the outrage a couple times...

back then there was a jackplate from land and sea racing..new hampshire.
we called it a step and jack
i had one on my 15 whaler with a 3cyl 49 cube omc, and it would pull an ez 6000 with a 23 sst rx ..silver streak.
..and i could ski behind the 15 boston, with the rx

so then the outrage..new boat the step and jack....62--63--64.. and Barney could walk me with some kindofa black merc.
...not by much..
.for a few round trips to the tiki bar....
........60 miles each way....uhhh an hour or so!!!.............at over 5500 all the way

I had the feeling the 15 whaler could shed the waterflow off the bottom..
.spray out to the sides
with no parasitic drag......
I got pictures.

then the 18 outrage would accept the horsepower...but the spray from the rolled keel would get trapped in the whaler sponsons, and scruff off true topend....
so I ran way too high with a 20 inch engine on a jackplate on a 25 inch whaler transom.

keep the whaler forever...if you never had one you can talk about a whaler..
.. when you have a whaler you do not have to explain.
.(especially older models)

i have 4 or 5 70 omc engines...i'm looking for another 15 whaler...

sickness, speed, a day that is the best.. go boating and have ..a

goodride