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Welcome to the site. Your V sounds very nice. Ferm mentioned my center console V with a 225Merc. It is actually a 250 EFI and my best speed now 63.1 mph turning a 23pitch prop, with a very light load. Speed isn't everything, in fact the speed isn't very useable most days. Trim tabs are nice but I rarely find the need to use mine. The hull is awesome. Keep us posted on how you do. Pictures would be sweet too.
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Welcome to the site. Your V sounds very nice. Ferm mentioned my center console V with a 225Merc. It is actually a 250 EFI and my best speed now 63.1 mph turning a 23pitch prop, with a very light load. Speed isn't everything, in fact the speed isn't very useable most days. Trim tabs are nice but I rarely find the need to use mine. The hull is awesome. Keep us posted on how you do. Pictures would be sweet too.
My bad, I knew you had one of the MERC 3L's though.
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Welcome to the site. Your V sounds very nice. Ferm mentioned my center console V with a 225Merc. It is actually a 250 EFI and my best speed now 63.1 mph turning a 23pitch prop, with a very light load. Speed isn't everything, in fact the speed isn't very useable most days. Trim tabs are nice but I rarely find the need to use mine. The hull is awesome. Keep us posted on how you do. Pictures would be sweet too.
I know I had to scotch-tape my eyeballs in lest they blow out and become crab-poop somewhere in the waterway!!...better be holdin on to SOMETHIN' when he punches it...
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Get those tabs up, trim that motor up so you are Sucking Ducks and you will fly with that motor.
I ran a V with a 225 Johnson on it in Lake George on fairly flat water, trimmed that baby up an let fly.
Don't know what actual speed I was doing but a guesstimate would be 50-55 mph and to be honest I did not particularly like it. Got a little squirlly around then.
Plus I realized I could not thoroughly enjoy the bikini clad crowd at that speed, not good I thought to myself.
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