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Old 07-31-2016, 01:15 PM   #81
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Default planes without strakes

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Originally Posted by thinkxingu View Post
Not sure why you would want it without strakes--if you wanna plow through the water, just keep the trim down, if you wanna skip across the water, trim up. We've slammed a few times on our 'toon, which was, as you mentioned, just a timing issue with waves coming from multiple directions. Taking on one set of waves at a diagonal is barely bumpy.

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I don't have strakes on my tritoon (25' with 130hp) and it doesn't plow. It planes up nicely with the front third of the toons out of the water when trimmed properly. The strakes will get you up quicker and likely at a lower speed, but by the same token, I've never pounded the waves either. All a preference.
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