Yep. Go ride a bike at 20-30mph and wiggle wheel to balance yourself as much as your doing now in your boat and youll flop over also.
easy trimming method: Raise the motor to the desired engine hight,say 1/2 inch below and leave it there forever for now.
Mash the peddle to the floor and as your hull starts to crest dont hold the trim but bump it as many times as it takes pretty fast to keep the bow off the water as you get going on plain. Youll feel the bow in the water if your to slow on the trim and that will cause the hull to feel heavy in the bow untill ya get enough bumps on the trim with your foot mashed to free up the hull.
As you accelerate just stay in the throatle foot mashed.
You might need to give it one or two more bumps on the way to 60 to keep her freed up. You notice at 60 the acceleration starting to slow down. Thats ok. Once your at 63-65 holding the foot down make one bump on the trim. Then one more. Then another and youll {feel} the hole hull lift up and get lighter all of a sudden. Thats the hull getting up on the pad. Youll accually feel it now you know what your looking for.
This is the only time you need to start {driving the Allison} Anyone can get to that point. Its what happens on the pad thats the tricky parT.
So this is the point were little steering inputs keep ya level and not walking back and forth. The very split second the hull feels like it wants to wiggle as you make that one bump on the trim that is the final one to get you up on the pad is when ya start and will always need the little tiny corrections to keep it steady the whole run above 70.
That 3 or so bumps from 63ish as she climbs up out of the water you look at the speedo as see an instant almost 10mph. Thats what happens when your running such a dry less wetted surface. thats the beuity of Allisons over almost any other hull on the planet. The whole hulls shape and pad shape are the best ther is for high speeds from freeing up the whole hull and making her ride in an optimal stance for cutting threw the wind and water.
So again when ya try this and you never {cought it} right away when ya got up on the pad at 65-70 then ya might as well just back down now and bump back as many times as you bumped up at 63 bring her back to 63 hold her steady knowing theres good water with no wakes in front of you and start bumping the 3 or 4 times again to get up on the pad and try and catch it right wasy again and again and again. You see a clearer pitcher of what ya have to do now Ill bet.:banghead
it takes a long post to explain everything in detail. Sorry about that but im sure your starting to understand more now the forcess at work and {HOW} you need to spend your time practicing.
We all went threw this. Well exept maybe a few chosen ones. Those guys are probably the the guys that smoked weed all day at school and still got A,s also.
Most of us go threw the prosses.
One more thing on Balanceing the hull as this will make life way easier also. The guys with the XB03,s can fill ya in more on this but its pretty standard for each hull based on your weight. For instance this is my GS not your XB so yours will be differant the guys will fill ya in on what they do,. im 220. I need two shot bags of 25lbs each in the oposite side to offset my weight at the helm. With this amount of wieght there is very little balance issues. If i took one weight out I would have to steer way more than I do with two as an example. With the correct amount of weight to offset you you can almost not even have to steer to balance because the hull is perfictly balanced already!!!!! Soooo Part of the problem you might be having is though ya feel your hull seems balanced at idel it may not be balanced enough or two much? So if ya give your weight {sorry for being personal if thats an issue} but then some one whith an XB03 that weighs the same can tell you what and were they have weight to off set for balance on there XB03. Then at least that takes that equation out of the picture then its just the driving part youll have to concentrate on knowing your setup is the same as someones whos you know is perfictly balanced. :beer:
