Starboard Tilt, I want to buy the boat but????

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chazall1

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I found a nice 1995 200 select in very good condition. I did notice one (1) thing that I am not sure about. When I took the boat for a test drive, we had a total of 4 people aboard. The boat was level before we applied the power. When the power was applied, the boat tilted to the starboard side a good deal. During this process of getting plained off, we mooved all persons, except the driver to the opposit side of the boat. The tilting corrected some what, but still noticable untill we got level. The Outdrive was in good shape, just a small bent in the botton fin of the lower unit. I did notice that a turbo prop (speed prop) was being used, not the original prop.
What would cause such a tilt to the starboard side????? The current owner for the past 3 years is not much of boater, and just says that it has always don this, and he was told that the two batteries on the drivers side causes the tilt.
Is this Normal!! I have been on other sea rays and notice a slight tilt due to the uneven weight distrabution but is not that noticable.

Can anyone give any info!

Thanks
 
Are there trim tabs on the boat? Two batteries, low in the boat and off to one side can cause a list (tilt), ours does this. We moved the hot water heater to the other side to even things out. Uneven loading of equipment can also list you one way or the other. The worst case scenario is enclosed soaked boyancy foam which can add a lot of weight very low in the boat and cause more problems than a list.

PS. Get a survey before you put your money down.
 
The previous owner siad it did that all the time he had it. I"d be looking for a more serious problem. Mine lists slightly to port when planed with tabs all the way up and I after inspection n oticed that the Tab on the port side was actually mounted just a smidgen lower than the one on Starboard. Now I just run with the starboard tab down just a smidgen to compensate for it. But you don"t have tabs on that boat so I guess that"s not gonna work for you. Only other reason I can think of is there"s something heavy on that side that you"re not noticing or worse.....a saturation of the hull on that side for some reason? Is the boat kept on a trailer or in the water? You might want to just put the boat in the water in a nice quiet spot and look at the transom"s attitude. If it"s listing while at rest you"ve either got a very what should be noticable weight distribution problem or a hull that"s water logged on that side.

By the way...It"s not my forum to run and don"t take this the wrong way...but you"ll probably get more responses if you refrained from putting the same post in two areas of the Forum.
 
The boat is kept on a trailer, inside. When I took the boat out with the owner, he indicated that it has been 3 weeks sense the was used last. The boat seemed to be level during the time running in the no wake zones. I just got the tilt when applying power to plane the boat off, when planed off, the boat seemed level and the steering was not affected during the time running to plane.
 
What I meant was to just look at the Transom while it"s at rest in a calm pool and see if the list shows. If not then it"s probably just a certain amount of Torque Steer while accelerating a certain amount of which can probably be accounted for by haveing the bent skeg.
 
Chazall...from what I've read here, and in the duplicate thread in Ask The Captain, it sounds like a normal condition for "your" boat. You say it's level at rest, level on plane, steering seems normal...you just have the list while coming out of the hole...which is most likely resulting from prop torque. Make sure your drive is full down on the hole-shot. Put trim tabs on it and quit fussing. Is this your first boat?
 
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