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Old 07-31-2016, 10:25 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by thinkxingu View Post
Not sure why you would want it without strakes--if you wanna plow through the water, just keep the trim down, if you wanna skip across the water, trim up. We've slammed a few times on our 'toon, which was, as you mentioned, just a timing issue with waves coming from multiple directions. Taking on one set of waves at a diagonal is barely bumpy.

If money is a consideration, check out Harris at Melvin Village--we, and I know Greene's Basin Girl, love ours.

Cheers!
I may have been hypersensitive to the extra "pounding" since that is what we were coming from and wanted to get away from. Also, driving the toon is different, especially trimming seemed to take a little getting used to. When I drove the boat with the strakes I hadn't mastered this new skill. I've also learned how different reverse is on the pontoon outboard compared to a I/O.
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