N80
Super Member
I know next to nothing about boats of any sort. My parents have had a 20" pontoon boat for several years and I know how to getting running and have a good time with it. But, the old Mercury on it was starting to have trouble and so they just bought a Yamaha 60 hp 4 stroke. Brand new. Looks funny on the old pontoon boat.
We were driving around on it late last afternoon....when the temp dipped below 98 going through the break in period. I read the manual and it places a lot of emphasis on getting it trimmed out properly.
Well how do you know when the trim is right on a pontoon boat? A 60 hp motor really doesn't noticeably lift the bow up or shove it down regardless of the the trim setting. And I'm assuming that a pontoon boat doesn't really trim up or down anyway. But the manual mentions that the engine is much more efficient if the trim is set right and I'm also assuming that getting it trimmed right, even on a pontoon boat, is important.
So how do you know when its trimmed right since bow height really doesn't change? Do you just have to ride it around and listen to when the motor sounds like its running best or do you just try to set it roughly 'level' with the water?
We were driving around on it late last afternoon....when the temp dipped below 98 going through the break in period. I read the manual and it places a lot of emphasis on getting it trimmed out properly.
Well how do you know when the trim is right on a pontoon boat? A 60 hp motor really doesn't noticeably lift the bow up or shove it down regardless of the the trim setting. And I'm assuming that a pontoon boat doesn't really trim up or down anyway. But the manual mentions that the engine is much more efficient if the trim is set right and I'm also assuming that getting it trimmed right, even on a pontoon boat, is important.
So how do you know when its trimmed right since bow height really doesn't change? Do you just have to ride it around and listen to when the motor sounds like its running best or do you just try to set it roughly 'level' with the water?