2 things I don\'t like about my Alumaweld:
2 things I don't like about my Alumaweld:
1) noise. I think that the 175 SJ is excessively noisy even for a big 2-stroke. I think that it is a design flaw. I have found it very difficult to contact Alumaweld and ask questions. It may be that I haven't figured out how yet. I will combat the noise problem but it shouldn't be my problem.
2) Water over bow. I recently traveled into a pretty good wind chop at (where else) Wind River. I took a lot of water over the bow. Not scary and it drained OK but I wouldn't have wanted to take much more. Maybe I don't know how to do it correctly as I only have 20 or so hours on this boat (but I do have 20+ years at sea so boat handling in general is not a problem). The second trip in the wind chop I got the bow up using power. Were it not for my air-ride seats I'd have gotten pretty well hammered. I read a post about trim tabs and they sound good except on a jet boat. But tell me if I'm wrong.
I have some ideas about the noise but the water over the bow thing has me temporarily stumped.
Words of wisdom pls? :whazzup:
Thanx
2 things I don't like about my Alumaweld:
1) noise. I think that the 175 SJ is excessively noisy even for a big 2-stroke. I think that it is a design flaw. I have found it very difficult to contact Alumaweld and ask questions. It may be that I haven't figured out how yet. I will combat the noise problem but it shouldn't be my problem.

2) Water over bow. I recently traveled into a pretty good wind chop at (where else) Wind River. I took a lot of water over the bow. Not scary and it drained OK but I wouldn't have wanted to take much more. Maybe I don't know how to do it correctly as I only have 20 or so hours on this boat (but I do have 20+ years at sea so boat handling in general is not a problem). The second trip in the wind chop I got the bow up using power. Were it not for my air-ride seats I'd have gotten pretty well hammered. I read a post about trim tabs and they sound good except on a jet boat. But tell me if I'm wrong.
I have some ideas about the noise but the water over the bow thing has me temporarily stumped.
Words of wisdom pls? :whazzup:
Thanx