Thread: 50 hp merc help
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Old 06-18-2012, 05:49 AM
briangeorge briangeorge is offline
 
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I have a 16 foot Smoker Craft Pro-angler 162 which is probably somewhere close to your boat. I have the 50 HP Mercury 4 stroke engine. Boat was purchased new 2 years ago so this is season #3 for it. When new it came with a 13 pitch prop. Max RPM was 5200. It would plane OK with 2 adults but with 3rd person on board it became very difficult. Went to a 10.5 pitch prop and Max RPM is now 5700-6000. Lost a bit on Top Speed but gets up on plane much better.
You are using your trim all the way down to get out of the hole correct? Once you start to come up to plane trim up until there are no rooster tails of water on either side of the engine.
Good Luck. Since I changed Prop I love my Merc.
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briangeorge
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