Picked up a new Pro Drive with hydraulic reverse and lovin it...except it is really easy to swamp the boat if I'm not careful in deep water. Maybe it's because I have a hunt deck, but in deep water the motor want to pull the boat under water at anything more than idle speed.

Pro drive manual warns this might be an issue, just wondering if anybody understands why it does this and if there is a way to deter the problem. I'd like to use the reverse to hold the boat in the wind when picking up decoys, but I'm afraid I'm going to swamp.

Adjust the trim up some so the angle of the prop will push the back of the boat up.


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Saw a guy in the wax that backed out of his blind and sank his boat this way. Was that anyone on here?? That was last year. They had a long cold ride back to the ramp with the sheriff

Trim it up and give it all the gas you want just let off easy : lol:

This doesn't make any sense if you have a hunt deck. Is your motor and false transom both short (16")? Hell I get my boat on step in reverse and I've never swamped when I let off, and I let off all at once most of the time..

Agreed, I don't see it on a hunt deck... And pulling down??

Worms!


You have to use a little thing called common sense! but some people don't have that so the next best thing is common knowledge. First thing when backing up there is no rake to lift the back of the boat, the motors thrust is doing the lifting ( no thrust, on lift). Second, all the weight is in the back of the boat (motor, driver, battery, bilge, etc..). Hell a lot of folks get water in their boats going forward and slowing down to fast!

I have a short transom so mine is really susceptible to water coming over the transom ( forward or reverse) The trick is to trim the motor up when you start off and begin trimming down as you pick up speed. When you want to stop just trim up and then let off the throttle easy. What is also normal practice for me and if possible is to cut the tiller left or right when letting off the throttle. This will change the waters trajectory from the transom to the side of the boat and will also swing the bow around.


Worst case scenario, and in a pinch let off and run to the bow! wear your lanyard kill switch so that the motor will stop!!

I need to keep playin with this. Might need to get a tiller extension so I can move a little farther forward in the boat...lots of weight hangin off the rear.

See the angle of the motor when trimmed up lifts the back of the boat, then like bayouboy said, once moving good, then trim down a little it will really get going. In this picture I had just got it up and not trimmed down yet. With the hunt deck, you shouldn't have an issue with letting off, but if I'm in water deeper than the transom, gotta ease off the throttle to keep from "dropping" the back down.

yep, sure does look that way

PD's always in Gt's shadow! lol