I bought in early April a new aluminum boat, 19' Raider with a 140
Suzuki 4-stroke on it, everything is new. I have less than 15 hours on
the boat as of today. The first time I used the boat it wanted to list
to one side while motoring down the river..tried trimming the motor,
little or no difference. So I take it back to the guys I bought it from
and they tell me "no big deal we will adjust the tab on the transom,
come back in a week".

I did that, took it out on the river over the wknd with my two buddies,
all of us weigh at or near 200 pds. If two guys get on one side with
one guy on the other the boat will lean way over....not a little, I'm
talking way over! If two guys move to the other side, it then leans
that way!

So, I call the manufacturer, he tells me "well they do this if you have
two big guys on one side". I'm thinking "give me a break, this is a 19'
boat! He then says "I will put trimtabs on it for 300 bucks!

I run a couple other aluminums made by other manufacturer's as part of
my job and have ridden in boats most of my life, have never seen
something like this.

I feel that this is a brand new boat and I paid 22k for it and it
shouldn't lean to the point of feeling like you are going to get thrown
out. I also feel like a brand new boat shouldn't need trim tabs and
there is something wrong!

I would appreciate the advice of you guys.

Thank you.

RM