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Originally Posted by Fat Jack
Dave,
I can make the same wakes come from my boat at any speeds between 15 and 35 MPH by playing with my trim and throttle. I refuse to believe that the boat in those photos cannot be planed just fine at below 20 MPH by an operator who knows how to drive it and wants to plane it. Let me know what make/model/engine you have and I'll find out for you what speed the manufacturer says it should be planing at. Maybe there's something wrong with your trim.
And of course, the skier had a lot to do with things too. Maybe you should have photoshopped him out.
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It's a 2000 Regal 2550 LSC with a 7.4 MPI Bravo 3 swinging 26" props with a 2.0:1 drive ratio. It's really not a good boat for low speed planing due to the stepped hull, even with the tabs fully deployed and the drive tucked all the way under. The stepped hull is awesome for fuel efficiency once up to 27 to 32 MPH though. If you can tell me how to run it better, I'm all ears.
The "skier" is actually wakeboarding so we were trying to plane as slow as possible and make a wake for him, I don't normally cruise like that. It planes slower with a wakeboarder than it does without (more drag but less weight). If he is not back there, and I have a typical load, my minimum planing speed is around 22 MPH, unless I make everyone sit in the cabin. In that shot it was just me and a spotter on board with very little fuel. I was not trying to mislead anyone with those photos, just showing how going faster makes less wake on any given boat on plane. It's not a new concept.