Edge boats

[CajunChristian]

Originally Posted by riverrunner28

So what makes the "strait bottom" so much faster than the "hooked"?

It was the location of the hook, it was about 1' from the rake at the front of the boat. And it was a 1" hook. Makes it very hard to lift the bow out of the water, the boat wants to plow.
A small amount of hook in the correct place makes a boat fly. Check the bottom of some hi-perf boats, the hook is at the very back of the boat. That makes it sit up on the tail and run without bouncing. You have X number of horsepower, how many will you use to raise the bow (with trim) and how many to push it forward. The more horsepower you have available to push forward, the faster the boat will run. That's why tunnel race boats are so fast, they compress air in the tunnel to lift the boat so you can use all available horsepower to push forward.
Look at this video, my motor is trimmed neutral and the boat is flying perfectly at zero trim angle.
http://s126.beta.photobucket.com/use...good3.mp4.html

The next video is a hot 25 yamaha on a hooked Edge, notice how much trim is used just to get the bow up:
http://s126.beta.photobucket.com/use...c4037.mp4.html

Like I said, he is now back to buiklding them like mine,,,,