22ft bay boat issues
 

We have a 22ft seafox with a f250 Yama..having trouble with porpoising ..at 35 mph... We do have trim tabs ,but to my understanding it's an accessory to a boat to use for leveling an to keep your bow down on rough water.... I've heard an read that Yamaha changed their negative trim to 3 degrees..So We thinking of adding wedges to increase the negative trim... any advice would be greatly appreciated or any of you have the same boat or the same issue..

Thanks for y'all's time!!

Mine will do that sometimes if I have to much trim up haulin azz, so I drop the trim down lowering the bow until it stops and raise it back up to the sweet spot

At 30 to 35 trimmed all the way down it does it

that's crazy, every boat Ive had if I trim it all they way down it just plows threw, like a bulldozer.

Has it always done this?

Sounds like your motor may be mounted too high?

true dat Meaux. i lowered my engine and got alot more low range out of the trim.

yes when we first got it we didn't have any tabs we couldn't go past 27mph cause of bouncing....so we brought it in an they put the tabs.. it does solve the problem,,but that's like just a bandaid on the wound.. its still there! I shouldn't have to use tabs in a smooth bayou or rivier cruising at 35mph...to me when u porpusing the first thing u do is trim down just a tad bit an it goes away! in my case I cant go down any more so I think adding 5 more degrees it should help if not solve my problem.. its just to get the dealer to add the wedges....its under warranty so they should fix my boat!!

Attachment 83564i can't seem to find the best picture right now but I'll use this one to explain about motor height.

Do you see the anti ventilation plate on these motors? You want it just high enough to where the plate is getting splashed just like these outboards are getting splashed.

Take a pic of your outboard when your running on plane.

Btw, I do agree that something is off. A brand new boat shouldn't have these issues.

I had similar problems in another boat and had to add wedges. However you end up continuously running trimmed all the way down or just a few bumps away because the wedges don't really give a lot more range.

I think that means it needs to come down some on the transom.

Is your cavitation plate just about even with your keel?

When you take off from a stop does your bow raise up pretty high then take 10-15 seconds to level off? If this is the case your motor could be too low

Well if we need to come down they gonna have to add me a jack plate... Can't come down any lower... We in the second bolt hole on the motor plate..

Yes sir it's pretty even..

This is what it should look like
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This is too low
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Yeah that's the pic I was looking for. If you can get your motor to do that it's the right height.

by any chance do you have a jack plate on the boat or does the transom have a little more angle to it then the average boat?

how is the motor set in the bracket? is it in the bottom "last" holes or do you have room to lower it more?

how the weight is distributed in the boat makes a big difference as well, is the weight of everything and gear spread out evenly?

No jackplate... Our boat has less angle to me...

Is it possible you have a hook in the hull?