dragonfly
Well-known member
I have a 22' thunderjet with a Hamilton jet and one of the problems when you add a kicker and extra batts is they take longer to get on plane and wants to porpoise around 45 mph. there are a few cures, you can bend the rear tabs on the boat ( didn't like that idea ) add trim tabs. ( Hamilton doesn't recommend them because if you do a hard reverse you can bend them from the jet thrust and worse case tear them off) and I didn't want to have worry about remembering to lift them every time I used reverse. Hamilton's suggestion was interceptors but for what they are the mfgs. were very proud of them. so I decided to make my own and while at it I would incorporate transducer mounts to them. here's pics. of them just welded I counter sunk the bolts so there is no turbulence for the transducers ( and if I didn't get the angle right or they didn't work I could just unbolt them )
here is the starboard mounted
and the port
and pics. from under
now it gets on plane quicker and no more porposing and still gets up to 58 mph with no problem. dfly
here is the starboard mounted
and the port
and pics. from under
now it gets on plane quicker and no more porposing and still gets up to 58 mph with no problem. dfly