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Old 06-11-2007, 04:27 PM   #166
Gavia immer
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Originally Posted by Silver Duck
As a planing hull is going from "hull speed" to "planing speed", it's squatting low in the water and pushing the biggest wake that it possible can (and burning gas in painful quantities.)
The answer is to put 5000 horsepower in a cruiser and go as fast as possible to burn less gas?

There's never going to be a wake from a cruiser that is manageable by the typical lake boat.....as well as the fastest boats seen on the lake.
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