Just tore up my lab finished 30P on the 22ZX - water level is down a foot in the Detroit area - hit something near beacon hill marina in Lake St. Clair.
Occured to me I never seen this topic on this site - does the Merc Bravo/Alpha stern drive kick up if you hit an object like an outboard motor does? Have seen a number of stern drives on performance boats with the skeg missing or broken - any opinion on how this effects performance? Another question - the skeg fin is fairly blunt from Merc - 1/16 radius edge - anyone filed this to a point for any performance increase?
Some Johnson racing outboard motors in the 1920's removed the skeg fin entirely and just ran the bullet - inboard shaft drive has no skeg below the prop. Wonder if this would reduce the rudder effect of the drive - course a shorty reduces the rudder effect also.