Strut Angle and Placement

[HotWater]

Good post wannabe! Lot's of info. I have measured 3 Biesemeyer's and 1 Revenge, each one had a different measurement. I guess each boat was rigged for a specific purpose or there was a lot of experimenting going on.

The K-034 team installed longer plates and some other bottom mods before the last race. Do you think the longer plates had something to do with the handling problems he was fighting?

[wannabe]

The K-034 team installed longer plates and some other bottom mods before the last race. Do you think the longer plates had something to do with the handling problems he was fighting?

Joey Cucci likes to run a standard revenge bottom (his mold) but put the strut further underneath the boat, then run shorter plates. (This keeps the standard measurement from strut barrel to plates the same) But if some don't know, they just see that this one k has shorter plates than the others. This fools lots of people. When you measure the barrel of the strut to the back of the plates, you will see that most boats in each class are so similar that it almost hurts.
Never let the plates fool you. Just like you don't let the placement of the v-drive fool you. It is all in the strut.
As for the 034, I would have made some of the bottom changes that they did make. But I don't know much about the plate change. I worried when I heard that they were making them longer, cuz I have run that boat before them, and knew some of what it liked. But they are smart, and knew what they were doing.