STRATOS JACKPLATES

[SNUFFY]

Anybody know of anyone running a 10"or bigger jack on a 201 stratos...late model ??

 

[FishingBen]

I had a CMC on my 201 but I don't remember the amount of setback.

 

[jbh3]

Snuff, I believe Kevin had a 6" on his 201. It was about a 98 model, I believe. I thought it ran pretty good. Might get on the BBC Stratos board and ask the C&O guys about the new ones.

 

[Captain Hazmat]

I have an 8" jack plate on my 2003 185 Stratos

 

[SNUFFY]

Actually the boat it is going on is 296 a few years old. I let one of the guys in our club take the 10" rapid jack I took off my Bullet last week, to try it and see if it would work Ok . I checked on the BBC and someone posted that it would revoke the lifetime warranty on the hull on the 201. I`d guess it would be the same on the 296. I told him at our TX saturday what I found out...he didn`t say whether he was gonna try it or not. My guess would be that it would work pretty good on the 296.

 

[wrechin2]

You can get too much set back and effect the way it drives. Stratos usually have alot of set back built into the hulls. I went from 6 to 8 to 10 to 12. 10 ran best then I went to the 12 and the boat became very hard to drive. My 11 year old daughter could drive my boat to 68 on the pad with standard steering when I had it set up with the 10. I couldn't drive it with the 12 and lost speed because it could not be controlled. just my experiences.

 

[SNUFFY]

thanks guys.....james I think it would probably be OK but I don`t know how experienced he is ....so I`ll tell him what I found out and see if he still wants to try it.

 

[wrechin2]

No problem. It may be good enough he can "learn" how to drive it. Mine was dangerous. Funny how 2" made that dig of a difference though. Later!