1999 450 voyager slow speed

I have a new set of 28 x 31's for sale never used came with my 450 Voyager with the Volvo 480's LINK REMOVED

Great deal
Alan

Dear Alan,

Soon your eBay sale will end and the link you posted will be worthless, so I've removed the link. If you have something to sell, place it in YF's classifieds or post a picture here with the specs and price, but read our rules before hand.

Do you use the trim tabs? Those Carvers always run very bow high and you have to almost always put the tabs all of the way down to get the additional speed out of them. I usually see most carvers of that era cruise 16-17 knots with no tabs and putting the trim tabs all of the way down will bring the speed up to 20-21 knots.

Chances are, the boat would not perform once loaded with fuel/water and owners weight with the origional factory setup. It's a lot of expense to change out the gears and the only reason they did that was because they HAD to. Given the .47 reduction change and lower pitch change on the props at the same time, the boat had performance problems and will never see the origional factory test figures again and chances are you can slash 5 mph off of those origional figures given the factories reduction/pitch change.

Why are the governers set 250 rpm's below rated rpm, and why didn't the tech reset them to factory specs? You can have your existing props re-pitched for a few more inches of pitch most likely. But you want to get a true RPM reading and make sure re-pitching them and you'll still get top RPM's at WOT.

You going to pull her out for winter? My guess is that the hull is water logged. If you do pull her out weigh her, then weigh her prior to putting her back in. I only say this because a friend of mine bought a 58 or 60 Hatteras SF and I rode in the boat when they moved it to their slip. The boat would not get on plane even with tabs. He never had the boat surveyed prior to buying it.(Moron) I insisted the boat to be hauled upon her arrival at her new home. After the boat was pulled and weighed, she was 4,800 pounds overweight. Turns out there was a small ding in the bottom which let water into the laminate. The boat was on the hard for 7 months until she dried out, then had two layer of epoxy, followed by bottom paint...problem solved.