trim tabs

[Capt. Bob]

It is a fair piece of insurance if you keep your boat on a rack in a covered storage site.

It may help if you forget to trim up (not likely but... ) and the forks on the lift lineup with the tabs.

[Aswaff400]

It is a fair piece of insurance if you keep your boat on a rack in a covered storage site.

It may help if you forget to trim up (not likely but... ) and the forks on the lift lineup with the tabs.

X2

i dont know how many tabs have been broken at work from people leaving them down... we have one customer that doesnt want to pay for the auto retract, but yet never retracts his tabs. every time he comes in, we remind him to pull them up... does he? no... and the guy has money to spare too

[seabob4]

We got the same boat back at Stamas 3 TIMES with bent tabs, owner couldn't understand it...DUH!!!!

[saltfly]

I agree, for people that forget to retract their tabs and have their boats put on racks. it’s a good feature.  Now for a few friends and myself. ( I don’t troll as much as they do.) They use their tabs to help fine tune their trolling speed.  So once set and a fish is hooked up. They shut down their motor, to fight the fish. After landing, they like the tabs to remain where they are. So once they start to troll again. They don’t need to play with the tabs and throttle location. To get back to the speed that was working. As for me. I guess I’m old fashion. I automatically  retract them as soon as I shut down. I also keep my boats on trailers. So I see where my tabs are. I also inspect them when I remove the drain plug. Just like I check my prop and lower unit.  

[Capt Matt]

If a boat sits on a trailer correctly the tabs should be behind the bunks and never touch. If you are going to keep it on a rack I can understand having the self retracting feature.
I always raise my tabs as I come off plane, its just a habit for many years.   I  also like the old style rocker switches for trim tabs with no control module, keep it simple, less to break.
Capt Matt

[HIFLUTIN]

If you keep the boat in the water full time they-SUCK!!!
No matter how much paint etc you put on them!!!
Been there/Done that