Installing a jack plate on your boat for the outboard can allow your boat to go faster.

Why put a jack plate on a boat. The jack plates lift the motor out of the water higher. A jack plate will lift your engine up in the water and bring your propeller closer to the surface of the water. Jack Plate by itself might give you an extra MPH or two.

In relatively calm water trim the plate up to pull the prop further out of the water. The plate allows you to adjust how much of the prop is in the water at any given time. There will be less drag force on the boat.

Because Then You Are Picking The Moter Straight Up. When You Raise Your Moter Up At The Angle That Occurs When You Lift It Drives The Back Of Your Boat Down And The Front Of Your Boat Raises. A jack plate gives you the chance to be able to raise the skeg and propeller on your boat up higher which is a great way to ensure that youre not going to cause damage to your boat or the homes of those creatures below.

A jack plate is used to raise and lower the outboard engine on a boat to achieve optimum performance. Thrust channels directly parallel to the surface of the water the most efficient direction. When youre in shallow water its normal for you to want to trim the motor so that nothing happens with your propeller.

Same method is used for T-H Marine Atlas Hi-Jacker CMC and many other brands of. Playing around with the setback and getting your prop worked by a professional will normally gain you 3 to 5 mph. Plate than Manual Plate but never the less it is important.

Choosing a jack plate comes down to whether you want a manually adjusted jack plate or a hydraulic jack plate and how much setback the plate has but there is more to it than that. A combination of tabs jack plate and 4. Check your new Jack Plate by having the Jack Plate either fully up or bottomed out fully down.