Captain PartyMarty
Crew Member
Hi Guy's
As most of you know I podded my Seasport last year with a factory pod and installed twin 200hp seapros. I feel like I am having some slow speed trimming issues when traveling in rough water.
at high speed everything is good, the engines have enough power get on plane quickly and I can trim the engines up to bring the bow up. I can normally get a trim angle of about 3deg before the bow starts to bounce. I then use my trim tabs to level the boat left to right and control the bow.
I feel like 3deg of trim is about right but what trim angle range to you normally run in.
Now if the water gets rough with waves coming at the bow, I am obviously running slower so lets say 20mph. I can drive the bow down by trimming the engines all the way down into a negative angle but that doesn't get the bow down as much as I would like. Now to drive the bow down further I would expect my trim tabs to be able to get this done, but I am finding that my trim tabs are ineffective in these conditions. I keep pushing on the button but I no response from the boat.
Is it possible that
1) the trim tabs are too small and the distance between the engines and tabs is big due to the pod which makes the tabs ineffective? pivot point is too far forward?
2) is it possible that the trim tab actuators are not strong enough to actually push the trim tabs down?
I was thinking of upgrading my switch to the one which shows trim tab position so I can see if they are actually deploying down. but other than that I am not sure what could potentially fix this.
As most of you know I podded my Seasport last year with a factory pod and installed twin 200hp seapros. I feel like I am having some slow speed trimming issues when traveling in rough water.
at high speed everything is good, the engines have enough power get on plane quickly and I can trim the engines up to bring the bow up. I can normally get a trim angle of about 3deg before the bow starts to bounce. I then use my trim tabs to level the boat left to right and control the bow.
I feel like 3deg of trim is about right but what trim angle range to you normally run in.
Now if the water gets rough with waves coming at the bow, I am obviously running slower so lets say 20mph. I can drive the bow down by trimming the engines all the way down into a negative angle but that doesn't get the bow down as much as I would like. Now to drive the bow down further I would expect my trim tabs to be able to get this done, but I am finding that my trim tabs are ineffective in these conditions. I keep pushing on the button but I no response from the boat.
Is it possible that
1) the trim tabs are too small and the distance between the engines and tabs is big due to the pod which makes the tabs ineffective? pivot point is too far forward?
2) is it possible that the trim tab actuators are not strong enough to actually push the trim tabs down?
I was thinking of upgrading my switch to the one which shows trim tab position so I can see if they are actually deploying down. but other than that I am not sure what could potentially fix this.
