Am putting in my first hours seat time in my brand new Puma FTD. Im a very experienced boater, but all have been I/Os, and mostly performance boats. This is my first bass boat, and my first outboard motor, which is a 250 ProXs. I just completed the 4 hour motor break-in protocol.Yesterday, with break-in behind me, I was running around my local lake at faster speeds to get a feel for how this boat rides. It caught me completely by surprise HOW HARD IT IS TO STEER this boat. Turning the steering wheel when running 55, 60, 65, 70 MPH, trimmed-out to where I think it needed to be, WAS A CHORE, and to be hones…a little scary. The first thing that came to mind is that something was not working properly – but Id find that hard to believe in a brand new BCB.One other piece of info that might help: my boat came from the factory with a manual jack-plate. I am presuming that where the motor was set in terms of height is where BCB KNOWS it needs to be. In other words, I am defaulting to the notion that the boat is overall set-up properly.So my obvious newbie question is….is this just the way it is? Are these higher performance boats with outboard motors set to make the steering feel exceptionally tight? Is this just the dynamics of the prop/motor/torque when running in the water? Is the steering intentionally set up tight to avoid an inexperienced boater letting go of the steering wheel at high speed, and having the motor torque hard to one side or the other and spin?Sorry for the long note here, but I definitely need to better understand this. Thanks for any insight.I2D
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