Hydro-Shield
Standard Size Fin: 8.9 - 100 HP, Boats Up to 17'
Standard Size Fin: 8.9 - 100 HP, Boats Up to 17'
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Product Description
Guaranteed improvement in overall performance and handling
- For boats 17 feet and smaller, and outboards 8.9hp - 100hp (for stock brackets)
- Get on plane faster
- Plane at lower speeds and RPM settings
- Improves performance, fuel economy and overall handling
- Shields the propeller from damage due to underwater impacts
- Reduces costly repairs to the propeller and lower unit gearing
- Absorbs impacts
- Controls cavitation and porpoising
- Fits on outboards and inboard/outboards
- Simple Installation
- Made from an energy absorbing compounded glass filled thermoplastic
Hydro Shield will get your boat on plane faster, allowing you to remain on plane at lower speeds and rpm's. It also improves handling and lowers your fuel burn at low and cruising RPM settings. Hydro-Shield will also protect your propeller from damage due to underwater impacts, and its 316th's marine grade stainless steel bracket system acts as a skeg guard, strengthening and reinforcing the skeg.
Made from an energy-absorbing plastic compound, Hydro Shield can withstand impacts, natural or man-made. Even if your boat strikes natural hazards like rocks, coral, oyster beds, or sandbars, or man-made hazards like lobster and crab pots, Hydro Shield maintains its integrity and protects your prop and skeg.
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All good with ordering product online and just about to install the Hydro Shield for usage this summer. I really like the Hydro Shield protection of my prop in shallow water areas and looking forward to see/test if product produces or allows boat to planes up faster with less petrol usage.
Product is very easy installation,
Thank you !!!
I added the Hydro shield to my 25 HP engine on the back of a 17' aluminum Valco skiff. At the mouth of the harbor I gunned it and the speed with which the boat jumped onto the plane was scary. With the engine set not all the way down but at one stop from the bottom, I could reduce the RPMs to something quite low and still skim across the surface of the water. If I wanted to go fast however, the bow was forced downward very aggressively. I followed the installation instructions for an engine with no power trim, but in retrospect, I maybe should have cut that tilt to the shield in half (1/4" difference front to back rather than 1/2").
I am looking forward to trying the engine in different positions with different loads but I am very happy with the initial result.
My planing distance went from 250' to 5-'-10' AWESOME difference.
Great quality and fits perfectly. Have not been on the water yet