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[Bayou Blaster]

After months of resaerch, contacting both Bennett & Lenco, and hours of web search, I was unable to successfully install a hydraulic trim tab on my 2005 Speedster. Fed up with the behavior and porposing of the Speedster 200 when the boat was loaded I reluctantly purchased the installed the Seadoo Trim Tab Kit, Part #295-500-986. Suprising it worked. It is a mechanial trim tab that extends the ride plate by about 3". I adjusted it to the max deflection, 1/4" and took it to the lake. It actually worked. The boat no longer porposes even with 7 passengers. Down side is I lost about 8 mph of top speed!
I plan to begin backing off on the settings to see if I can find a happy median.
The kit cost about $375 and takes about 2 hours to install. Worth is if you want your Speedster ride like a boat should.

[Kevin Leclair]

Great to hear, do you have any install pics? Thanks for the heads up!

[pelemron]

Too bad Bombardier can't build a boat correctly in the first place.
My 2005 Speedster 200 is worthless as well, because of the non-stop porpoising.

[tom harris]

I too have experienced the seadoo porpous on my speedster 200. I have found a company in Lake Havasu, AZ that is looking into fabricating a hydrolic trim system (bennett). I want to be able to adjust tabs at speed. Will try to keep you posted. I know it won't be cheap, but I don't want to get another boat.

[sebster 200]

Hey Bayou , I have a speedster 200 2008 model and mine does it especially with no weight and calm waters . It's so bad that it's embarasing. I want to install the trims but not sure about loosing top speed .
How did you go with the adjustments?

[spinyard]

i wonder if anyone has ever tried to add a vts (trim off an rxp?)

[Bayou Blaster]

Sorry its taken me so long to return to this post.
I attempted backing off the on the tab adjustments with no success. The porposing returned after the first adjustment. I returned the tabs back to the max adjustment and just accepted the speed loss. I am sorry to say this boat is by far the worst handling I have ever owned. Its ashame since it is awesome looking and the big advantage of the shallow water running ability, which is the #1 reason I purchased this boat, due to the numerous sand bars on my lake. But after 3 years of tweaking and attemping to master this beast, dealing with the porposing issues and down right unsafe behavior and now combined Seadoo getting out of the boat business, it may be time to sell.