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Originally Posted by Dave R
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.
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Dave and other wakeboarders. Do you have any idea what your wakes do to the shoreline? Most coves have been protected from the weather and natural waves for years. Now due to a higher lake level during the tourist season and clueless boaters the shoreline is eroding. Trees are being undermined and previously sandy bottoms are being silted over. These are hard facts, but I don't expect anything to change for the better.