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Old 09-18-2015, 05:49 AM   #12
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If you are truly curious about such matters, the naval architect Dave Gerr's "The Nature of Boats" is a good read for the interested layman. The Nordhavn-ized version of Beebe's "Voyaging Under Power" also touches on the subject of hull design fairly extensively, but doesn't discuss as many different design issues as Gerr's book.

I agree, trim tabs would be a great enhancement to the OP's boat, they're standard on virtually all planing boats.
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