Pulling to the right

[drisso88]

I've checked the nozzle alignment, and they are even. My batteries are on the left side, and I'm on the left side. so I would think if anything it should pull to the left. When I'm cruising around 35 mph i need to keep the steering wheel 1/4 turn left in order to go straight. This leads to the boat listing to the left quite a bit, and is not fun to do for any length of time. If I let go of the wheel the boat itself will stop listing and straighten out, but will pull to the right. Any suggestions other than the nozzle alignment?

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

I've checked the nozzle alignment, and they are even. My batteries are on the left side, and I'm on the left side. so I would think if anything it should pull to the left. When I'm cruising around 35 mph i need to keep the steering wheel 1/4 turn left in order to go straight. This leads to the boat listing to the left quite a bit, and is not fun to do for any length of time. If I let go of the wheel the boat itself will stop listing and straighten out, but will pull to the right. Any suggestions other than the nozzle alignment?

It’s counter intuitive, if there is more weight on the left it will go right. So try and move some weight to the right side of the boat.

Do you have the aft starboard live well full when this is happening?

 

[drisso88]

It’s counter intuitive, if there is more weight on the left it will go right. So try and move some weight to the right side of the boat.

Do you have the aft starboard live well full when this is happening?

I have not tried that, but I can next time I go out. I didn't try evening out the weight because I was thinking it would pull the same direction the excess weight was on.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

I have not tried that, but I can next time I go out. I didn't try evening out the weight because I was thinking it would pull the same direction the excess weight was on.

Try stepping to one side or the other of the console and you can steer the boat once it’s balanced.

Last year when I was at lake Mohave and cruising on smooth water with no wind (a little wind can also make your boat turn) I was cruising along and my boat was slowly turning to the right, when I shifted my weight to the right of the helm the boat started tracking straight, it occurred to me then I had moved all the down rigger weights over to the left aft storage compartment. I move the four weights to the starboard aft storage compartment and that fixed it.

I had thought I needed to make an adjustment to the articulating keel, made an adjustment to the tie rod and nothing changed. I found that I was wrong about that assumption and just balancing the weight made it track straight. So when I pulled the boat that evening and got it back to where I was parking it I put the tie rod back where it was. I made a post about it here;

Thread 'Correcting for Torque pull to one side'

Mar 13, 2024

So, a while back I checked the alignment of the buckets and they were good, perfectly straight using a aluminum straight edge.

While I was at it I decided to mess with the articulating keel adjustment since it looked off. This is one of those situations where I did something that I wish I would have done differently. Before I started I should have checked the center to center measurement of the bolts that hold the tie rod, but I didn’t. So the next time on the water after I had “fixed“ the keel adjustment I had a decent pull to the right while cruising, nice going dumb ass. Now, in...

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[Speedling]

I will add that trim tabs even when hadly deployed will help balance/steer pretty decent

 

[gthorson]

I've had similar issues. I ended up making small alignment adjustments even after having the nozzles to what I thought was even. I ended up getting it all worked out over the course of several trips. In addition, I had to center my steering wheel so it would turn the same left vs right. After it was all said and done I also saw a small increase in speed due to not having wasted thrust on steering.

 

[drisso88]

I've had similar issues. I ended up making small alignment adjustments even after having the nozzles to what I thought was even. I ended up getting it all worked out over the course of several trips. In addition, I had to center my steering wheel so it would turn the same left vs right. After it was all said and done I also saw a small increase in speed due to not having wasted thrust on steering.

I checked my steering wheel as well, and I was surprised that it was even from the factory. I'm 1.25 full rotations to lock out both left and right

 

[drisso88]

I will add that trim tabs even when hadly deployed will help balance/steer pretty decent

I had trim tabs on my last boat and will definitely add them to this one at some point. Up in the air as to getting manually operated ones like I had before or somthing automatic like seakeeper.