we have a similar berth, and occasional sidewinds......you can get your boat to crab sideways, if you turn the drives to port, put the left drive into forward and the right drive into reverse, the left drive pushes the stern in and the right one pulls the bow to the right at the same...
I put this originally ion the Modififications thread but it works so well on my 1991 270 Sundancer so here it is..
http://clubsearay.com/showthread.php/79228-Trim-Tab-ACS
I have a 1992 SR 270 Sundancer, and use trim tabs all the time for adjusting to compensate for wind, people moving about and general conditions. With Twin motors and drive trim and trim tabs it can occasionally get quite busy having to tweak this or that depending on what is going on at the...
Hi Bugsy......you could try having one of the props worked, maybe make the blade area smaller or take some cupping out to reduce the torque need to spin it.......failing that a High 5 might give you easier planing with less power......
Maybe its the heavy cleats :-)
I was going to mention the whole Labour hours thing but Gary Hill beat me to it a few posts back. (Glad I read the whole thread first). Production / Design labour costs as well as extra material and therefore weight are where the major differences are in my...
Between me and the Admiral we have had a lot of boats over the years...I raced for ten years in Offshore till 2010....and our previous boat, a Ring 21C with 200 Yamaha was good for nearly 70 mph....then we had a yearning for a motorhome to tow it to different places and we enjoyed that for a...
Ex Royal Navy Helicopter engineer, now drive a desk as Project Manager for Safety and Environment in a UK Naval Base....its a living....the Admiral works here too......
Dennis, thanks for the response...I was trying to save some money by getting replacement upper and lower units for the worst of the parts. Ive now bought 2 complete Alpha 1 gen 2 drives (one CR) so we should be ok now.....onwards and upwards...already got new transom shield assemblies so the...
Hi all....I am replacing the Alpha 1 gen 2 sterndrives on my sundancer (2 x V6 Merc)
I know the gear ratio is marked on the top unit, but is it the upper or lower unit that decides the prop rotation? I think the lower units are the same and the forward direction of rotation is created in the...
I contacted Lily cam and they said they wouldn't be shipping to the UK in 2016...so I'm stuffed...I really like this one, so I will wait and see what happens to the company.