VTS and me....

[factory81]

How do I use it? When do I use it? etc....

From what I understood...keep the trim down until your getting up to speed and your planing. Then increase trim to decrease how rough the boat is.

Planing is when the boat is not "nose tip up". Or more level...is this correct?

Im taking my boat out tomorrow and well...I needa know guys

 

[Wyldhorse]

Edited because I though you were on a ski haha.

With the VTS on that, I'm sure is like the trim on any other boat. At speed, you'll want to keep it around the middle to keep the boat level, but when you start from a sitting position, you'll want it either all the way down or up, i can't remember. I drive my friends boat all the time and i have it I beleive all the way down when I'm stopped and as I'm accelerating, I bring it up to about the middle as the boat planes out. I'm trying to picture how I do it, since I don't really pay attention to what position it is when I'm stopped, I just kinda do it haha. I do believe it's all the way down though

But it sounds like you got the right idea

Someone else might be able to help more. That's just my 2 cent.

 

[ILLNESS]

go out and play with it.. only way to learn.. lol

 

[scary]

Yah I have the same thing i mainly have mine in the middle I figured out what the forward and backward do and not sure but i move mine at idle not while moving while moving it seems very hard to move and i didnt want to break anything.

It does make a diffrence in how fast you plane out

 

[scooper77515]

I have a 97 Challenger single 787...

I have found that the quickest takeoff is pull the trim down toward "SKI" either all the way down, or at least down toward the bottom 25-33%. Gun the throttle full blast, and as the boat rises out of the water and "just starts to plane", start to slowly push the trim forward (up), until it reaches about 10 mph shy of top speed about the time you hit full forward trim.

This will pop it out of the hole and get the speed going so that you are ready for high speed maneuvers in the quickest time possible.

May differ from boat to boat, but at this point, just try it out and do it a little differently each time you take off and experiment to see what your boat likes and responds to best.

 

[vilord]

Besides helping get you out of the hole faster, pushing the trim all the way down/back will cause the water to push down as well as forward, which will push the bow down so you can see where you are going.

Wish I was taking my boat out tomorrow parts won't get here 'till next week

have fun!!!

 

[factory81]

Trim down = nose down

Trim up = nose up?

Is that how it is in a nutshell?

 

[scooper77515]

That is it. Trim in Ski mode pushes the nose down for more "torque", then put it in Speed mode and it lifts the nose up and makes it plane shallower, so only the back little bit of the boat is in the water. Less drag makes it go faster, but you lose your controlability, so if you need to make a hard turn, you may need to put the trim back down to halfway or more to get it to grab.

Of course, one of the funnest things is to make a hard turn at high speed with the trim up...Even the other boats in the water that are prop driven will watch and go "WOW!!!":cheers: