Thread: Chine walking

Originally Posted by MINNERTROLLER

Ladies and Gentlemen, chinewalking is caused by not enough of the boat contacting the water. Any boat made, at high enough speed and wrong amount of trim WILL Chinewalk

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I had alot of chine walk when I first got my 354V at about 50-52mph. Moved a few things around and run the boat per the tach and feel. I know I'm trimmed right when I have zero torque steer--that's when I stop trimming--and it's running at 5500 RPM and 58mph (more trim just runs the rpm up but gains no speed) will prolly be a bit faster once I get the prop cleaned up a bit(and may pick up the chine walk again). Took me a few weeks of running and such to figure the whole thing out (since it was a new to me boat this summer) but it did the trick. I did read a good spot on the BPS site about driving high performance boats and how to deal with chine walk which helped alot (read it 3 or 4 times before I took the boat out)

Originally Posted by majflyboy

I thought that was a Bee Gee's tune.

Gee thanks Maj, sang "Chine Walkin" all day yesterday

I used to watch them boys race Alison's in the Jesse Brent Memorial race evey year. Those boats would run in the high 90's and I have seen them flip, do 180's and desinergrate. I saw two guys tuning their boat one day and all the sudden it went into a billion pieces. Broke arms, legs ribs sholders, they quit racing after that one. I had the radar gun on them and it happened at 98 mph. WHen those Alison's chine walked at thode speeds it was violent from side to side. But like they said earlier it can all be fixied by moving stuff around.

Ask Goodtime about mine chine walking on Sardis last year, it got unfunny real quick.

Since old farts don't need to go over 50, it's not a problem for me.

Originally Posted by rockmike

Since old farts don't need to go over 50, it's not a problem for me.

Amen

Mo's boat got a little squirrely on enid last year. No thanks