Thank you KY4XV 73

and here we have another sad hater. Thanks for your bullshit comment. I'm not even deleting it so others can see what a moron you really are.

We'll be welding supports to the trailer, then the boat gets transported to have it sand blasted. When that's done the boat comes back here and my friend will continue the restoration work. Up until the the boat goes back in the water it will remain on the trailer.

I still have the 24 pitch prop. But I'm selling it since the 23 pitch that I just installed works better with my boat. I think it's more the fact that the 23p has a 12.5" diameter and the 24p a 13.5" diameter. I was shopping around for a 12.5" either 23 or 24p, and it so happened that I found this 23p locally

The prop is a Mercury Laser II, 24p Diameter is 13.5" The boat is a Baja V1400 (14 foot), the weight I think is around 500 lbs empty. With my fat ass and full tank it may total 800 Lbs. I think the engine weighs around 320 lbs.

@@teuton77777 that's a ton of prop. I never ran bigger than 21p but I'm pushing a 17' bass boat. After I link/synced the motor I went back to 19p. Incredible hole-shot. 2mph slower.

I tried a 21 pitch but lost 8mph off the top. Hole shot was pretty much the same yet the motor still didn’t turn past 5000 rpm I did adjust timing and all but I’m sure there’s still something I’m missing

It's a small Lake, close to where I live. Location is Withlaccochee State Park near Ridge Manor, Florida. Thank you for your nice comment.

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I thought about that too. Just don't have the money for another prop at the moment. If I can find one for little money I would like to try a 21 pitch and see what happens. The motor came with a 17 pitch, but with that the boat would only reach about 42 mph. The hole shot was almost the same between the 17 and the 24 pitch. I didn't know what rpm the motor did with the 17 pitch prop since I didn't have a tachometer at the time.

I'm working on the interior for the past few weeks. It's a slow progress but it's getting there. I basically gutted the whole boat and started over. Especially the old electric and plumbing had to come out. I'll post some updated videos on here soon. Thank you for leaving the comment :)

yes, thank you. The engine runs great so far. Time will tell how it's going to hold up

I have one of these engines, it's a 115 Mariner/Mercury Tower of Power, on a checkmate MX 13, and it will fly.....

@@michaelgreene2920 I don't think I'm getting full power out of my motor. I can't get it over 5000 rpm. It's running great but I have the feeling it should turn to at least 5500 rpm. Especially with this small boat. How fast does your boat go and what is the max rpm at full speed? And what prop are you running?

@@teuton77777 sorry so long to get back to you I have lost a place where you had answered me back you probably should be running around 5500 RPMs but you can check the stat books on that, I haven't been all that long got mine set up and I haven't quite got it completely set up yet it's already running 53 miles an hour by GPS and I hadn't even opened it wide open I'll have to check my because I can't remember exactly what pitch is on it but I will check and see what is on it I had leaving raised the motor up quite as high as I should on my Jack plate I'm just learning how to do all this stuff too running at 50 something my boat is starting to get a little squirrely and I haven't even really started trimming it up yet so I don't know exactly how fast it will run, and to tell you the truth I might not ever know.... I'm going back up to the lake tomorrow and I'll find out about the pitch on the prop... Like I said I'm just setting mine up so I hadn't got everything dialed in yet, I can tell you one thing though, I don't think I want to go a whole lot faster in the boat that I got, cuz when I start trimming it up it starts getting light in the water and then getting kind of squirrely, so I kind of been letting off until I get to know this boat better

@@michaelgreene2920 I encounter the same problem. At around 52-53mph the boat starts to become unstable. And I also haven't even trimmed it up because it started to lift the bow and that made it even more uncontrollable. But I just did recheck the timing and discovered it was around 6 degrees retarded. I was able to get it close to 21 degree (WOT) as per specs. The idle timing was also a few degrees to far back, and I did adjust this one too, around 6 degrees. The RPM specs per Mercury should be at least around 5200-5500 wot. I'm also going to lift the motor a little higher on the jack plate. Maybe I get time to take it on the lake tomorrow to find out if it made any difference. I'll keep the videos updated.