Yes some is seat time, and you may be too low also. The best explanation we can give is the left hand scenario. ALWAYS, always try to keep the nose to the left of center. It should never pass to the right of center as the nose moves. That means you should try to catch the nose before it pivots back to the right. Eventually you will have a very subtle hand pressure to the left, which you will not even realize you are holding that pressure. The left one handed driving is easiest to learn. Two hands tend to fight each other. Hold both hands in the air at the 10 and 2 positions, now try to move them at the exact same time. Very few can. The single left hand can feel a slight pressure from the propeller as it loads in the swing. Then you eventually will be able to tell. We liken the swing of the nose to a pendulum or metronome (tempo gauge) and as the nose swings to the right, never let it get past mid point of that swing. Keeping all bow movement in the left half. Do try raising that propeller to eliminate any belly walking you may have. You may try a half inch or so, and if you gain wheel torque, drop it back down. It may all be learning, and until you learn to let it rip, or put someone behind it that can, you may not be able to set it up yet. Hope this helps you out some! BCBThis is another simple explanation from an outside web site. Perhaps this will help also? “Wait a minute! How DO I drive it?” The generic answer is “small helm corrections to port as required”. Not really a definitive answer, is it? No one can TELL you how to drive YOUR boat. I know its frustrating and you get tired of hearing or reading “seat time”. Although you will pick up pointers, even “show and tell” with an experienced driver at the helm and you as observer will not be enough. The corrections become so nearly automatic that its hard to communicate “why” I did that or “when” to do it. Overcorrection to port throws the hull past centerline and it tries to fall to port. Under correction to port allows the hull to continue to fall to starboard and requires additional correction to port, often resulting in overcorrection. Each under or overcorrection requires a larger correction to compensate and, if that correction is too much or too little, the oscillation increases. This is the beginning of chinewalk, the time to ease out of the throttle and start over BEFORE it becomes dangerous.You CAN do it! You must set aside on the water time to concentrate on your driving skills just as you would learning a new fishing technique.
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