Almost any boat with a pad hull will chine walk at some given speed. If your “rooster tail” is higher than the engine cowling, the motor is trimmed up too much. If you have a lot of right torque on the steering wheel when trimmed up, its trimed up to high, or the motor is too high on the jackplate. When trimmed properly and engine height is correct, the steering should be almost neutral. Then, when the boat tries to fall off the pad, generally to the right, you have to make a SMALL left correction…Im talking about a twitch, nothing more. Its not a one time thing, but a relatively constant movement. An unbalanced load in the boat makes it happen more often. My old PII had a 4 blade Eagle Predator prop on it and steering torque was almost completely neutral when trimmed properly. A three blade prop made the torque a bit worse, but not unmanageable. If I had a large partner in the passenger seat, I would have to compensate more…the older PIIs had dual 21 gallon tanks, plus an oil tank, and three batteries, so I would try and balance things a bit by using more fuel from one tank or the other.I dont know what your prop is like, but I LOVED the Predator prop…I was running a 200 Merc XR6 and could get 70mph with two people and a tournament load if I drove it right. But, my normal running hole to hole speed was more like 60mph, just to save a bit of fuel, as the old motors liked gas…2017 Sabre FTD AE DC2017 Yamaha 175 SHOMK Fortrex 80Helix 10 Mega SI in consoleHelix 7 GPS SI GN2 on bow
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