VMAXX hit the nail on the head.

Learning to handle chine walking is nerve whacking, at best.

My old Stratos would chine walk at about the same speed. It was very tough to handle and scared the ..... well let's just say if I held the throttle down, I would have had to change underwear. This was also my first ever "high performance" boat.

A lot of what you are describing is caused by the design of the hull, if I am not mistaken. There are alot of folks on here who know much more about it than it.

I don't know if you are aware of what causes this or not, so the following may be redundant to you. When the boat is up on the pad, the torque created by prop will cause the boat to dip, very, very slightly, to one side. This causes the drag, and the boat then drops back to the other side. One has to be very careful when correcting using the steering, as you can over compensate easily.

With my triton, I don't know if the hull is that much better, but the chine walking doesn't start until I get in the low 70's. This boat has "power" steering, and I have been able, for the first time, to actually continue to accelerate, having had my boat up to 77. However the driving at that speed becomes so intense, I really just don't enjoy it, so I rarely take the boat to that speed anymore.

Also check out bassboatcentral.com. They have several rooms set up for each manufacturer of a boat. I don't know if fisher has one or not, but there are a lot of very knowledgable folks there.

Tell you dad good luck, and becareful. We sure don't want to read about him in the newspaper.

Danny