Good luck Josh. I'm confident that if you have a clean hull, straighten that
skeg, and get a new prop, you'll see close to 40-45mph (with an average
load).

--Mike

"Josh Assing" wrote in message
...
Heating it up would help, but be careful not to overheat it. The shape of
the skeg (from the side) looks good apart from the chunk taken out of the
back. I would just grind down those rough corners (kind of round off the
broken part), grind the bottom smooth, and paint it. That is *if* you can
get the twist out. If you can't get the twist out, then she needs to see a
prop shop. That twist *will* slow you down. I'll bet the boat pulls to the
right, so you need to steer left to compensate. That sort of cross control
aint good for speed.

Wish me luck! I've already filed the rough edges down -- Plan on talking
to a
shop about welding up the chunks.

it doesn't so much pull to one side, as it does ride "uneven" -- giving
serious
consideration to trim tabs if fixing the sked doesn't help

That's the exact same setup I had on my Reinell...except the 22 was
stainless.

I just couldn't afford it. The prop shop said to go 21 not 22; he thought
the
22 would be "too much" and I'd tend to overheat if I had too much weight
in.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and I think we've nailed your
problem.

I could never describe that good enough....

Thanks for the advice! We'll find out -- I'm changing the engine oil
now; then
working on teh stern light (trying to clean the contacts) and then
lastly - try
to change the outdrive oil. It looks like there's upper & lower units --
gotta
read up to see what oil is used in what and how much to see if I have the
oil
here for it.

Thanks
-josh


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