It plows through the water instead of over it.

Do pontoon lifting strakes work. Question 1---will 6 strakes make more of a difference than 4 strakes will. It just cant go any faster IIRC it has to do with the length of the bow wave generated by moving through the water. I am considering adding lifting strakes.

Mounted at the waterline the TAP. Add our exclusive elliptical pontoons plus lifting strakes to your boat for incredible 2-tube performance easily achieving speeds around 30 mph with as little as 90 115 hp. Welding Strakes on Pontoons the issue is the strakes are covering up the leaking pin holes so soap and water will not work to find the leak.

Top View of Pontoons. Well they WILL get up on plane but need more power to get there. We have to perform a slight modification on the lifting strakes themselves to then mount the structural bracket underneath your boat.

Hydrofin can definitely be installed and added to a pontoon even if there are already lifting strakes on the boat. Sea-Legs will lift the deck of your pontoon six 6 feet measured from the bottom of the pontoon deck to the lake or river bottom. In order to take the buoyancy off of the pontoons you need to be in approximately 4 ½ - 5 feet water.

These strakes work to raise the pontoon over the water rather than facing each single wave head-on. Question 2---does it matter if I install them only on the inner side or outer side of each of the 2 pontoons. Lifting strakes are blocks of metal that are welded directly onto the pontoon tubes themselves to generate lift allowing your boat to lift and glide above the water instead of tearing through it.

What happens to all the water displaced by the pontoons with lifting strakes. The main foil system then attaches to the plate thats mounted along the strakes. To have your pontoons fully out of the water a depth of 4 feet or less is required.