I took the 6 remaining holes from 1/4" to 5/16" I thought about a nose cone, but all the "race guys" here say it don't do squat under 70. I sure don't think it would hurt, but we'll see how everything works this way. I hadn't heard about a flat starboard side. What does that do?
Jerry, if you remember, after I raised the drive 3" on my boat, it had a Terrible act of grabbing air to the prop in Any turn, slow or fast, the only way it would stay hooked up was strait ahead, after adding the nose mod, I could take turns power turns at any speeds with no problem .. I think you rode in it at 65mph around the bend in the river at Redwing doing that, and the nose mod itself added almost 3mph to my top speed. I think the nose mod would help the efficiency of any prop, but the prop I had was lab cut shallow runner, made a Noticable difference.
about the skeg ... flattening the starboard side of the skeg adds a torque value to off-set the "paddle affect" of a shallow running prop with less resistance than a torque tab behind the prop. Setting the prop as high as you are setting that one up, will be running the top side blades out of the water, when the hull gets up on plane, the prop begans to act as a "paddle wheel" pulling the skeg sideways, flattening the side of the skeg helps straiten that effect out.
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