Interesting article about chine walking Chinewalking1
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Interesting article about chine walking Chinewalking1
Notice they used a Triton as the example! Good info there, G.
That's a good article, thanks for posting.
I was always told to drive though it.
I thought that was a Bee Gee's tune.
Have driven one that I didnt have the balls to drive through. My first boat was an old Venture and if you learned to walk it through the chime it was one fast hull. A good friend that has now passed away helped me learn to alot out of a hull, wish he was still around, was fun riding with him. It is amazing what you can do with a hygralic jackplate and the tilt and trim.
Had never heard of it til now. I dont have to worrow bout it though lol
Those left and right twitches of the wheel can darn sure get you puckered up.... Balanced my weight out much better 3 yrs ago and it was a huge difference maker... Boat will 70 on the 998 with no hands on the wheel.. Fast enough for me
With enough horse power and speed, setup incorrectly, all performance hull bass boats will eventually do it at some point in the trim cycle. Definitely not manufacturer specific. They'll all do it if they're fast enough.
One key that I noticed in the older hulls was the pad, the deeper the pad the harder to get up on it. But once you were there it was on. I use the trim button alot, done rite it helps with fuel consumption. Like to run fast but nothing wrong with sitting on about 4 grand and just cruising.
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:dono
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Originally Posted by MINNERTROLLER
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)
Gee thanks Maj, sang "Chine Walkin" all day yesterdayQuote:
Originally Posted by majflyboy
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.
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Originally Posted by rockmike
Mo's boat got a little squirrely on enid last year. No thanks
Cruising speed.:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by rockmike
Thats me Mike, lolQuote:
Originally Posted by rockmike