"Tuning" props for salt vs. fresh water.

When I worked for Circus Circus in the mid eighties I had the opportunity to work with Bill Bennett's unlimited Hydrofoil team "Miss Circus Circus" for two seasons as a telemetry technician and the race team did have sets of cleaver props that were pitched and tuned for water density's i.e. Salt vs Fresh. They were always dealing in fractions of speed increases but I can't see a motor yacht or S/F going to these extreme's. I'm sure if you drill down enough on the web there's going to be some viable information in regard to this topic and how it would apply to yachts.

I was at Mission Bay watching her race side by side with Pay n Pak late 8os. Both boats came up and flew over backwards. You there? Awesome sight.

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I believe your talking about the spectacular double flip by the then two side by side Hydro's Miss Madison & Miss Circus Circus in San Diego 1988 ? I think that piece of video received more air time on ESPN and in the previews of any unlimited race after that. Bill Muncy threw in the towel after that experience. I don't want to get to far off topic of the thread but if your interested I have some stories of the egos and $$ involved between all those teams. Drivers, Crew chiefs and designers jobs were never safe and you lasted only as long as you won. Mr. Bennett was an interesting gentleman and I got involved with the Unlimited team after completing the build of his De Vries 42 meter Feadship in '83 / I'm told that a PM is now a conversation? still exploring the new site...

Darn slow brain cells, the second boat was Miss Madison. Somewhere around here I have a picture from the east (island) beach. Was watching both of them thru my big camera lens when they flew up, startled me and as I raised up I did push the shutter button. Did'nt realize I had a picture until I returned to Jax.
Thx for the correction and video lead.
Shush, only 26 years ago and not thought of in over 20.

Oh, Back to the OP;
If your flying inches over the water and thousands of horsepower is screaming behind you, It can make a difference. The weight of the air makes a difference on those turbines.
I don't think Fresh/Salt water tuned props will offer you anything on a stock boat.

High altitude lake operation IS a consideration for wheel changing.

Can you offer some specs please? Power, weight, differance in props, differences in speed and rpm?

From FL coast to coast thru da lake, I've never noticed anything in many different sized boats.
But we are eager to learn something new, soundly.

If you can offer the ships delivery name or hull number, I can have the office look up the original specs.
I'm tied to their (Huckins) dock currently.

Would Lake Okeechobee be considered pure fresh water? Never noticed any change. Except sucking the bottom in some places.

So if the canal had some irregularities, say from a side channel joining, sudden direction may change? I need to copy this to that thread.