What prop do you have now? 3 or 4 blade? pitch etc?

I have a 22' blue water w/ 240hp engine (v8, 350) & tabs. The tabs help get on
plane -- perhaps that's what you mean rather than "hole shot"?

In order to get teh boat on plane, you had to get going fast, otherwise, it
would 'settle down' and come off plane at lower speeds. The tabs helped there.
I've thought about using a whale tale, but decided not to to avoid extra stress
on the outdrive.

I'm with the others (but I know a lot less than they do) on working more with
your prop.


On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:20:55 -0800, Doug wrote:

I've read thru past posts, and searched the web. The world seems divided into
two camps

"trim tabs are a better choice"
"whale tails/foils are cheaper and do more for hole shot"

After reading, it seems there's two types of cavetation plate 'add ons' -- foils
that hydrodynamically lift the stern, and "whale tail" types that use prop wash.

My boat has trim tabs, but am looking for better hole shot, I've played around
with props already. before I make holes in my cavetation plate I wanted to know
if one or the other types of tails are worthwhile and if anyone can sum up
pros/cons between the two.

Lastly - will they really help more than the tabs did for hole shot? The boat
is a 92 22' cuddy cabin runabout with a single 350ci engine.


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