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How to drive a Pulsare

DropTop5.0

DropTop5.0

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I'm diggin my new hull. Looks sleek, feels sleek and is very easy to drive with the 200 EFI on there. As y'all know I'm still a little new to boating and thanks to this great site I'm getting smarter all the time. I can learn, I'm just a little slow.

Planing question: My normal practice for getting onto plane is to trim all the way down and then put the hammer down (full throttle). When I come off plane, I trim all the way down and usually ease back on the throttle until it falls off plane. Anything wrong here?

I've read where people are talking about their big boats and you have to treat a Bravo nicely if your all loaded up with people and fuel if your making a lot of power. I assume nicely means you gradually apply more throttle until you are up on plane where you have less resistance.

This weekend I'm planning on having six peeps in my Pulsare and I was curious about getting on plane using my full throttle approach. Also, my Pulsare is a long deck so there will be four people in the back along with a full tank of fuel (38 gallons).

I have a hydraulic jack plate and when it is all the way up the prop shaft is about 3.5" below the pad. When running heavy like this, is there a benefit by lowering the jackplate an inch or two? I'd assume I would have a little better control but I'm not sure if it will help getting out of the whole? By the way, I'm spinning a 23P Trouphy Plus.
 
On my last 2100ld, I had a 10"cmc manual plate and a set of 2" spacers with everything as high as it would possibly go and was running a 27" Trophy+ and I could do what ever I wanted. It was a little slow out of the hole with that much prop, but with a 23 Trophy+, I could have 5 in the boat and 1 on the tube and still take off like a rocket! With a 21 Pulsare and the factory 10" cmc manual or hyd, you cannot get it to high.
 
Planing question: My normal practice for getting onto plane is to trim all the way down and then put the hammer down (full throttle). When I come off plane, I trim all the way down and usually ease back on the throttle until it falls off plane. Anything wrong here?

That is what I do. Gets you faster on plain, (unless you want to stand her up), And slowing down that way keeps the water from coming over the transom.
With more people (weight) in the boat she's gonna be slower and feel more stable. You may be able to run the prop a little higher. But be safe and have fun too.
 
keith4216 said:
I like to get in her easy till im up on top then ride it hard. Don't want to hurt her before I'm even going.
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Yeah but there's usually a struggling point between plowing water and up on plane where it's helpful to give it some
extra oomph just to get up on top decisively. (at least that's what I do-and then I back her down and start to trim up a little).
 
Can't compare planing with an O/B to planing with a 4 Stroke Car motor.

The reason that big power car motor guys plane easy is because of all the torque going through the lower unit.

2 Stroke O/B lack low end torque in comparison, so that is why you nail it! Never started any other way with my O/B boats.

Hit it!!!

HD
 
Also you're generally pushing a lot less weight with an OB and if not you're pushing through multiple engines and dividing the load. I find tucking the motor in and running it as high as I can without cavitation gets me the best holeshot.
 
Should be good getting up on plane, but I would put the jack plate about half way up.
Trim all the way in then a little out. You may also want to think about pulling the vents out of the prop. There are medium plugs in there now, it will get up, but take a second to cavitate to get the RPM's where they need to be. They should hold between like 3k-3.5k, once on plane back off and trim up to 1/8 or a little less on the gauge. It will take some seat time to see where you want it to sit.

If you bury the prop to much you won't get max RPM out of the motor when you want to show off how fast she goes!
 
The higher the motor is the less leverage lifting the bow up. It's a matter of physics. Of course it may be possible to go too high and the prop loses bite and you get the opposite effect of what you are after.
 
I have ran this set up on 2 2100's and 3 2000's and it works great with or without a load. I even had the motor bolted on in the bottom holes to get the max heigth.
 
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