I bought this boat new about a month ago. I have about 8 hours of drive time on the boat now. It preforms well all the way up to 67-68 MPH. It drives like a Cadillac!

At 67-68 it begins to chine walk. Its not really violent, I havent let it get that bad... I have been trimming down or coming off the gas and it stops. Any suggestions on if I should go up or down with the jack plate? It has the factory Tempest 25 pitch prop.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.. the sales rep said the boat should run 72-74... of course I dont really need to go that fast but it would be nice to say I did it.

Chine walk is part of owning a Triton. you might try going up on the plate a little ..... but watch your water pressure.

In time you will no dobt learn to drive the walk. Do a search on chine walk articles to get some tips.

Congrats on the new rig !!

I will give a few quick jerks to the left until it levels out. Not enough to make the boat make a left turn or anything, just hard and fast enough to get the chine walk to fade away.

Make sure there is no play in the steering, I mean "0" play. Make sure the motor can't move back and fourth any without the steering wheel moving. Any play in the steering lets the motor move back and fourth on it's own and there is almost no way you're going to be able to control it.

As mentioned, then you can play with the motor height. The more you can get it up and keep bow lift, and it never lets the water pressure drop below manufactors minimum pressure (usually about 16psi), the less it has a tendency to walk. The right setback and motor height is key. Over trimming will also cause one to walk.

What you want to do is keep the motor trimmed down slightly until you get to max speed, then start bumping the up. Just when you fell it start to slowly walk, leave the trim alone and practice countering the walk. Get you timing so you're slightly moving the wheel to the left, just before it starts to go right, and vise versa. you will always have to slightly rock the steering well while you compensating for the direction it wants walk. As you get better at second quessing, you trim it up a little more. That's going to make it walk faster and you increase your rythm. Give it a few months and it will be second nature.

Might want to play around with your load balance a little also.

Chine walk is caused by when the hull gets all the way up on the pad and off the strakes, it falls over to one side and the water knocks it back over to the other side. It's just going down the lake falling from side to side on the pad. You have to learn to keep it balanced on the pad before it can fall over enough to one side or the other to hit the water.  Normally, the prop torque is going to make it fall to the right first so you're bumping the steering to the left.  To start with, you usually have a tendency to go too late and too much so you find yourself having to correct back to the left.  Get the balance right and the rythm right and it will usually just be sligth bumps to the left.

Thanks for all the responses. I have read a few things online about chine walk and from what I am reading it seems as though Triton is at the head of the pack with chine walk issues. I love, love, love the boat it fishes well, plenty of space and halls bass! lol I am thinking if I can get into the high 60's with no walk I should be happy. I will try to post a picture if it... its one I took at the dealership... here goes nothing! lol

Thanks again.

I have helped the Triton staff during their Owner's tournament a few times. One morning, one of the Triton employees started making fun of a man who was trying to get help from the Triton guys that week with setting up his boat. The old man said his boat ran great up until around 66-67 mph then it would chine walk. The Triton guy said we adjusted his jack plate but he's just going to have to learn how to drive it! He then laughed about it. IMO, if I, or anyone else, pays 40K+ for a boat, that is something that shouldn't be expected. And for an employee to acknowledge the problem and then blame the problem on the old man, that's just crappy.

I bought the boat out of state so I really cant get that dealer to do any any adjustments. Would you think up or down would be the right move? I plan to take it out and tinker with it... the sales rep said the boat was prep'd at Triton and it is in the spot that "they" have gotten the best performance out of....  From what I have read I am going to move it up a 1/2 inch and run it and see what happens.

I might suggest 1/4" up each time, 1/2" is a bit much. 

The things I look for is, if it starts to loose bow lift,  if water pressure drops below 16psi (even in turns), if rpm increases but speed doesn't and I trim down slightly and it actually loose speed, or it starts towant to blow out in turns worse in even mild turns.  When I get to this point, I drop it back down 1/2" and leave it.   However is you try a different prop, you have to start off all over again.   

thanks for the info!

You guys rock, I appreciate all the tips and help!

I bought the boat out of state so I really cant get that dealer to do any any adjustments. Would you think up or down would be the right move? I plan to take it out and tinker with it... the sales rep said the boat was prep'd at Triton and it is in the spot that "they" have gotten the best performance out of.... From what I have read I am going to move it up a 1/2 inch and run it and see what happens.

Don't do it. Too much travel. Go 1/4" at a time or you might go right past the sweet spot.

Make dang sure you watch the water pressure. When you start moving the motor up and down it quickly becomes the most important guage in the boat.