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I recently purchased a 17 cougar with a 250 pro xs 2 stroke on it. The boat currently has a 25 pitch fury prop but it’s beat up pretty bad. To the point it makes the boat vibrate with the trim too far down. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a new prop and what my prop to pad should be with said prop. The boat has a 8” manual jack plate lithium batteries and poles. I’m hoping to get the boat to bust 80. Any help would be appreciated. Thank y’all.
I would start with setting your Slidemaster JP flush, then buy a new 25 Fury 3 and send it to Ronnie Gilbert, he’ll probably want you to run it once first to get a baseline. Depending on your load, temp and altitude, you may be able to run a 26, but the 25 is probably the best overall for speed and holeshot. You should be able to do a search and see what “flush” means on a BassCat JP, if you’re not sure. Ronnie’s number is 337 380 1437
I second what Mike Dominick stated regarding the prop. I own a 2017 Cougar AE with a 250 optimax on the back. I have poles on it, 3 graphs, garmin trolling motor, a ton of tackle, 3 group 27 wet cell batteries for the trolling motor and a group 31 x 2 gel starting battery. I also have and run a 25 p fury that Ronnie Gilbert worked on. With all that being said, I had a person from the marina that I bought the boat from drive it with myself in the boat, full tanks of gas, empty livewells. With both of us in the boat it was going past 77+ when the driver asked me if that was fast enough, which it is. I have yet to really master driving this thing at speed. Ronnie Gilbert knows how to tune a prop and does know Basscat hulls. Your problem will be do you want it fast out of the bottom, fast at the top, fast with a bunch of weight in it, and so forth. And yes Ronnie will sit on the phone with you, and he does back up his work. He told me that if I do not like the prop send it back and he will re-work it to whatever I desire. Just watch your water pressure, and handling as you move that jack plate up and down, a 1/4 does go a long ways in changing handling characteristics of the boat.
Ran the boat today with a new stock 25 fury. Comes out of the hole like a rocket and top speed was 77.2 at 6000 rpm with my tournament load and 2 full tanks of gas and 2 people. Also tried a 28 bravo and it spooled it ok out of the hole but once it hit 73 at 5350 but you couldn’t drive it beyond that. I assume the motor needs to be raised for that prop and it needs to have the barrel shortened.
Also thank y’all for the help. I’m super excited to be apart of the bass cat community.
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