Hospital Hop...how to stop it?
Newbie question for all you hydroplane guru's.
My UL-1 starts a sponson to sponson wobble and sometimes gets worse and more violent until I have to let off. Some times it straightens itself out... but usually it doesn't.
What is the cause and cure for this condition?
Is this caused by being too light on the sponsons?
Do I need more weight forward or more prop depth?
BTW...I heard Darrel Waltrip (I think it was Darrel) talk about a car on the brakes too hard while getting into the corner too hot making the car hop up and out and hit the wall. He called this hop the "Hospital Hop" because that's where it lead too!
I call the sponson to sponson wobble the same thing cause that's where your boat is going to end up if you don't let up. :cursing:
Thanks for the help guys...maybe I'll quit bugging ya someday....probably not though...cause we now have 3 of these new boats in the club and several more saying they are getting them....and nobody knows what there doing! :popcorn2: