"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:00:22 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

I had a Robalo that handled like that. No matter how I trimmed it, it
porpised and chine walked in turns. I mentioned it to a guy at work who
took it and adjusted the mounting height of the engine on the transom.
All
the porposing and other squirrely handling symptoms disappeared.

Yeah - that was a thought. My own experience with jack plates would
seem to indicate that it would help more than hurt.

And as it happens, I have a mechanical jack plate sitting in the
garage.


In my case, a jack plate wasn't required. The bolts holding the engine on
the transom were removed with the engine strapped to a fork truck. It was
either lowered or raised (can't remember which) by one mounting hole and
reattached. It made a huge difference. The chine walking was scary on
that boat when making turns at high speeds and the porposing was obviously
annoying. The motor height adjustment completely eliminated both. It
didn't take much.

Eisboch