She is back home

We have her back at the house raised the motor 2 more inches the cav plate is now 5 1/2 inches higher than the bottom of the boat, at speed it was still to deep, I think it will run better at this new height, we did a set of test forward and reverse turning and the boat handles very well she will turn on a dime at low speeds almost pivots at idle and at high speed she would carve the water like a jet ski, taking other boat wakes the weight of the boat makes it seem like we were not hitting anything you feel a slight bump and then see the spray,Paint will be starting the week of  April 17th Light blue up to the hand rail run and white fore deck and aft area, along with the wheel house being white, everything seems to be working great on the boat except the fuel flow meter, this is being resolved as i want to know what RPM gives the best fuel burn, i am thinking the 10 MPH at 2200 RPM's is the sweet spot faster than 10 and she starts to squat making a huge wake, then on up around 3300 pulls her self up on plane. But it seems to labor at that RPM  push her on and is smooths out around 4300/ But that is way faster than i wanted to have her set up to ride. we will keep posting photos and additional information about fuel burn and other things. We have removed all through hull fittings and even the transduced is mounted inside the hull. I did the epoxy on a bare sanded area center of the hull worked great, transduced mounted on the sterm gives the water temp and other info. After a day of water testing she liked the Quicksilver 15 1/4 X 15 pitch prop, with a 17 she would break 34MPH but labored at lower speeds,