Also are add-on cavitation plates useful on pontoon motors to reduce prop ventilation issues.

Pontoon motor cavitation. Cavitaion usually occurs as a result of damage and youll feel it in the form of vibrations. That leaves me to place my passengers on the L-shaped lounger across from the helm. Why BIG FOOT gearcases exist2.

If you can post some pictures of the relationship between the lower unit Cavitation plate in particular and logs. Motor cavitating on pontoon boat I have a friend who bought a palm beach 22ft pontoon boat with the 22 pontoons instead of the 19 standard pontoons. First it can physically damage the propeller.

2009 LOWE SS204 25in logs. Water disturbance from the pontoons can also cause it on some toons. Cavitation wastes energy makes the propeller noisy as the vapor bubbles collapse and most seriously erodes the props surface due to localized shock waves against the blade surface.

My endeavor to catalog and video typical hydrodynamics seen in Pontoon Operation. Normally cavitation occurs when the prop is too close to the surface of the water. Why Ventilation in turns occu.

The propmotor setup seems to be good. If 2 or more adult are sitting on my front loungers cavitation is inevitable unless the motor is trimmed all the way down. Cavitation is bad for three reasons.

Its a plague of pontoon boats and why merc invented Big Foot motors. Since I have fishing chairs in the rear seating passengers behind the helm is not an option when I am underway. They arent the same thing and people often mistake one for the other.