2002 Searay 260 Sundancer Trim Tabs

[David W Bowers]

I recently purchased this boat and the trim tabs are very touchy. They seem to work correctly but very sensative. Are there any tricks I should know about. I do not have indicators.

Thanks

David

 

[Lazy Daze]

Trim tabs either work or they don't. Is this your first go around with trim tabs?

 

[KevinC]

Those are mechanical momentary switch controlling a magnetic solenoid. As lazy mentioned usually they work or they don't. If intermittent I would check the switches first.

When my trim tabs were acting up on my 260da it was corrosion inside the switch.

-Kevin

 

[David W Bowers]

Yes I have had trim tabs before. These are touchy with a lack of a better description. Powering up the yaw from the props throw the boat over on its starboard side and I quickly have to hit the starboard down right trim 2 or 3 times and she rolls back to center. Once on plane and trimmed out, everything is good.

 

[Jon Paul]

With the beam on that boat, I used to have one, I only used tabs to level once cruising. You should be able to look up as there was numerous discussions about it when I purchased mine.

 

[KevinC]

Yes I have had trim tabs before. These are touchy with a lack of a better description. Powering up the yaw from the props throw the boat over on its starboard side and I quickly have to hit the starboard down right trim 2 or 3 times and she rolls back to center. Once on plane and trimmed out, everything is good.

Never had the issue on my 2003. Are your tabs fully retract when you throttle up. Outside of a strong crosswind catching the bow or someone moving side to side i was fine. Once on plane I would set course and use tabs to level. Unless conditions or direction changed I was usually good.

-Kevin

 

[Lazy Daze]

Yes I have had trim tabs before. These are touchy with a lack of a better description. Powering up the yaw from the props throw the boat over on its starboard side and I quickly have to hit the starboard down right trim 2 or 3 times and she rolls back to center. Once on plane and trimmed out, everything is good.

I never had that issue with my 260DA (same model/hull, too). It always came up onto plane very level and easily. Most of the time, I didn't use the tabs - unless I had a bigger load or was doing watersports. When conditions warranted, I would certainly use them (including heavy weather), but the hull did surprisngly well without them.

You really shouldn't get any roll (yaw would pivot the boat's heading left to right) with the B3. How clean is the bottom? It sounds like something else is going on. Unless you've got the tabs at different levels.

Have you verified that they move at the same rate? What happens to your hole shot if you don't use the tabs?

Are you holding the tab button down to long?