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What prop is right for you?

Selecting the right prop can be difficult.  Many websites by various manufacturers and retailers have 'prop calculators' on them now.  Those are a good place to begin to find a prop to start off with.  The problem with the calculators is that they don't take in a lot of the after market accessories that many boat owner like to add to their boats.  The additional weight from trolling motors, power poles and talons, gear, extra people, extra batteries, and coolers can all effect what pitch is best for your boat.  Trolling plates, stabilizer fins and hydrofoils, and how you use your boat (fishing, skiing, tubing, surfing, wake boarding, trolling, cruising) can also effect what pitch prop works best for your boat.​  Most of these calculators don't take these factors into consideration and may end up recommending a prop that doesn't work well for you.

SO WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOUR PROP isn't performing well?

COME TALK TO US!  

There are a few pieces of information that will make it much easier for us to help you determine what pitch will work best for you.

  1. Make/Model/Horsepower/Year of your motor.

  2. Current prop size and brand.  Bring it with you if possible so we can assess the condition of the prop and find any possible condition issues that may be causing performance issues.

  3. Current RPM's at full throttle and full trim.  This is one of the biggest and most important pieces of information that we will need!  This will help us determine what we can do with the pitch and how far we can go.  Changing the pitch, cupping, or number of blades on a prop will change the RPM's of the motor.  If you don't have a tachometer (RPM gauge) on your boat or it isn't working properly, have one installed, or have it fixed.  You may be able to find a temporary tach at a local marina or boat mechanic shop that you can borrow to hook up and use also.  If you are not sure if your tach is working properly, find a boat mechanic or marina that can check it for you.  Not knowing the RPM's can cause unintentional damage to the motor.  It also becomes difficult for us to figure out what pitch is best.

  4. What performance problem you are having.  Is the hole shot ok? Are you cavitating in corners? RPM's not right?  What are you not happy with?

  5. What do you want out of the boat?  Better cornering while skiing/tubing?  Faster top end? Better hole shot? What is your end goal?

The more information you are able to give us, the better we will be able to help determine what we can do and how we can help.

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