what heavier, the front half of a ranger boat or the back half including the engine?
i just wanted to know if the front of a ranger boat is heavier then then back half with the engine, i just wanted know why it got on plane...
thanks
luke
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The back half is definitely heavier since that’s where the engine. That’s why the nose goes up when you first start accelerating.
Back for sure
The motor alone probably weighs about as much as the hull without the motor.
How it gets on plane:
when you start to accelerate, the boat is pushing a “bow wave” out in front. The prop digs in and pushes the stern down, and the bow rises. As the motor develops more and more RPMs, it begins to push the boat up the side of bow wave (out of the “hole” it just dug). When you get near the top of the bow wave, the bow drops down, the stern rises, and the boat planes out. At this point, you should start trimming out, a little at a time, until any additional trim adjustment causes RPMs to drop instead of increase. That’ll be your optimum trim angle for current conditions (weight of the boat, wind & waves, etc.). That will change during the course of the day as you lighten the load by burning fuel.
If you don’t have enough power, or if the weight is unbalanced, the stern can fall off the wave causing the bow to rise; the engine pushes the boat back up the wave and it falls again…this phenomenon is called “porpoising.” That should never happen to you.