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Old 10-14-2014, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Montauk17 View Post
When you put the motor on a jackplate with a tunnel you loose the cone of water coming out the tunnel. Creates alot of prop slip. Defeats the whole purpose of a tunnel. Some people will extend the tunnel with a jackplate but I don't see the need for it.
Bingo, the water does not stay focused to the area of the prop once it leaves the tunnel so the farther back from the transom/tunnel the less water to your water pump and prop so less to grab hence the prop slip.
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