Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:20 am
Congrats!! Your boat is fantastic! Now enjoy the fishing!
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Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:06 am
Stunning. Beautiful. Awesome.
Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:08 am
Those switch panels are really cool! How did you go about making the emblems on them?
Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:37 am
Beautiful job! I love the custom switch panels and the all white color scheme.
Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:43 am
Beautiful Mark, now you can slay some bass! 
Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:46 pm
Spectacular boat - congratulations!
Lee
Lee
Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:04 pm
Hot damn, Mark, she is beautiful!
Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:31 pm
Thanks Guys. Tomorrow will be a better trial. Going to hit the lake at daybreak with my Brother in Law and slam some Hawgs!
The switches: https://www.otrattw dot net
I should have performance data but I think ypu guys are correct already - the jack plate can come up at least an inch. I'll have to lay back there when we are at WOT and see the cavitation plate just below the water at he lowest setting in the plate. This will give me grab in rough water then the ability to bring her way up on a calm morning. What I notices is on the highest setting, I can plane from a stand still so my gut tells me it is low. I can simply hook up to the hoist and bring the plate up a hole or two, engine as well if we need. I didn't want the actual holes any higher as that would start to infringe on the 3" rule?
As always input welcome. Looking forward to the August long weekend in Canada!
The switches: https://www.otrattw dot net
I should have performance data but I think ypu guys are correct already - the jack plate can come up at least an inch. I'll have to lay back there when we are at WOT and see the cavitation plate just below the water at he lowest setting in the plate. This will give me grab in rough water then the ability to bring her way up on a calm morning. What I notices is on the highest setting, I can plane from a stand still so my gut tells me it is low. I can simply hook up to the hoist and bring the plate up a hole or two, engine as well if we need. I didn't want the actual holes any higher as that would start to infringe on the 3" rule?
As always input welcome. Looking forward to the August long weekend in Canada!
Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 7:23 am
So... dang she rides nice. Ran up the north end of the lake where it turns into a river that leads to a set of locks and had a riot trimmed and jacked up WOT sliding around the bouys like a slalom course. Got a couple nice largies under the bridge and along the lily pads. I don't have the hole shot I did on my last boat but NO big bow rise at take off and she doesn't seem to plane any slower with a full livewell which is over 30 imperial gallons so another 300 pounds. I may drop to a 15 pitch as planed and trimmed at WOT is barely over 5000 RPM and ypu don't want to lug these motors. Back to trim - doesn't seem to make much difference ? Top speed was 42 MPH
Re: Mark's PH18 in Toronto
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:59 pm
Hi Mark sounds like you have a winner of a boat and she sure is a winner of a looker. As far as props go you need to drop 4" in pitch to go up to about 5800 rpm's if you are running at 5000 rpm's now. So if you have a 17 pitch now go to a 13 pitch for the new prop. This will keep you from as you mentioned from lugging the motor. Most manufacturers have rpm upper limits of around 6000 rpms so you want your top end with end sight of that. Please feel free to ask any questions that you may have.
Tom
Tom