On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:47:36 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:24:06 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:
With a smaller, open boat, you can see when you are on plane. On the
Parker, that's pretty much impossible, though there are certain "feels"
at various speeds.

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It's been my experience that the transition point gets much fuzzier as
boat weight and length increase. With something like a Hatteras 53
weighing 50,000 pounds or so, they never really look or feel like they
are on plane even when going 20 knots.

My Bertram 33 weighed about 23,000 pounds and was clearly on plane at
13 to 14 knots with a little help from the trim tabs. It really
didn't FEEL like it was on plane however until it got over 20 kts. At
that point the hull was well out of the water and it had the feel of
gliding over the water instead of plowing it aside.

AH HA!!!

See - "gliding"....

WHOO HOO!!!! I love it when I'm right. :)

Later,

Tom