"Ok. I went out there and too
"Ok. I went out there and took some pics. This site won't upload them unless they are dinky. I set the camera on a lower setting but it still won't do it.
You owe me big for this. 32 degrees, spitting something between rain and ice, 20 mph wind, everything is wet. I had to hold the camera against the hull to keep the shaking down to a roar. Brrrr. It is worse like this than if it was frozen already.
You are going to have to give me an email to send the pics to. I'm tired of screwing with this uploader. Not a computer nerd.
If you catch a wave or roller wrong, I could see how you could turn it over, but I never have been able to and I've tried. Congratulations. Mostly, I just get whiplash.
The aluminum plate under the jetdrive can be bent to adjust the trim. Trim will change how it goes on plane, and how it holeshots. Since it isn't an adjustable trim, you have to find a compromise. But you are trying to keep the nose down but not too far. You do have to keep the water intake under the jet pump in the water, so that is a limiting factor, too. You don't want much hull in front of that in the water.
I really think a power trim would improve these things.
I also think a bigger Yamaha outboard powerhead on the jetpump would improve things. But it would just make the gas consumption worse and it is already terrible.
Yes, I can get it smooth, but I stay off of the big, busy lakes. I hunt glassy parts of rivers and creeks.
I often go upstream in canoe creeks, but the canoeists and the canoe rental people think they own the creeks and have a fit. I'm surprised I don't get shot. These eco-freaks here have been getting public access boat ramps taken out every time they build a new bridge, so the rest of us can't get into creeks and rivers we have been using our whole lives. Canoe and campground rental outfits along the creeks have political pull. I'm seeing fishermen get arrested for fishing the banks that they have been fishing since their grandpas took them fishing there."