150-250 hp What’s your Prop pitch? 3-4 blade?

[FishOn!GetTheNet]

Just wondering what people are running for props and how they like them 

[TOXIC]

You know that different brand of props run completely different on different motors and boat makers right?  I run a Yamaha HPDI 250 and run a Yamaha 25 pitch T1, 3 blade on a 21 foot Ranger. It would help if you gave the boat and motor choice.  

[Way2slow]

This is like asking which flavor ice cream taste best.  There are so many variables involved with an answer to this, there is no such thing as a right answer.  About the only thing close to a given is a four blade generally gives and better hole shot and the three blade gives more speed, and that is not carved in stone.

 

[WIGuide]

If you're looking to dial in your setup this isn't the way to do it. Every prop will run different on different hulls and different motors. Like Way2slow stated nothing set in stone.  

 

To answer the question though I run a 24 Pitch Tempest+ on my Ranger 518c with a Mercury 200 Pro XS two stroke. It runs well, but I might look at a few other options this year. 

[gulfcaptain]

Run a 4 blade 25p custom prop (tempest design) on a 99 Champion 203 with my 250 proXS. Tried a 25p fury 3 blade and boat didn't like it, tried both 24 and 26p 4 blade tempest, boat didn't like.  Probably get a 25p 3 blade tempest  as a Spare.  But you have to go run different  props to figure out what your  boat likes and handles the best. 

[Way2slow]

On my bass boats, I almost never ran a stock, out of the box prop of any kind.  Since I've always been a speed and performance junky and ran OMC motors, I would get the Raker prop that performed closest to what I wanted and then sent them off to Bob Lipton with my boat and engine performance data and had him put his magic hammer on them to dial them into perfection.  My last boat was a 20' Javelin and with a modified motor ran 82.7 mph with two 220-pound men, gear and gas, turning 6,600 RPM, and launched like it was shot out of a cannon.  With the same prop, out of the box, it ran just a touch shy of 80 mph, turning 6,800 rpm. and nowhere near the same hole shot.

However, there are very few people, short of professional racers, that are going to spend the time and money (and it can take a lot of both) required to dial a boats setup in for top performance.  The average boat owner doesn't even have a clue of how to dial one in, in the first place.