2008 206 chine lock???

[fetid swamp]

Hi folks - have used the term 'chine lock' but not sure what it really is.
Our 206 has developed a nasty habit of lurching to one side and holding that edge if the weight is not distributed properly in the boat...feels like it is going to tip over and then slews around at the back when you back off. For example, if you have the driver on one side and two on the observers seat (one in the middle and one on the side) and then someone sits next to the engine box or on the gunnel on the observers side then the boat rides low on that side and high on the drivers side, which I understand, but then at some point it will lurch up on the observers edge and you have to back off otherwise it feels like the boat is going to tip over and even then, when backing off, it is still pretty scary.
I know boats don't ride well if the weight is not distributed properly but this is scary stuff and it doesn't happen in other friends boats.
Any thoughts?? Anybody else have the same experience?

[AirTool]

I have a 206 and have never ever ever never ever thought the thing was going to tip over.

In fact, it took me some time to get used to the thing flattening out while powering through turns (which is opposite your typical i/o bayliner).

If you powered the old Bayliner I used to use through a turn, it felt like it was going to roll inward like a log. Sometimes the women and children would freak out.

With increasing power, the 196 and 206 actually flatten out in turns (no matter the peeps) and the tracking fins grab the water like a bullet train on rails.

That's my experience anyway.

Maybe you need to check your fins and rudder.

[fetid swamp]

Yellow & black 206's must be popular...looks like you have the same colour scheme as us.

Same experience as you with the turns, that's not the problem. If the weight in the boat is not right then it tends to lurch up in a straight line, especially if you are following some wakes and get a bit crossed up on them.

[AirTool]

206s and wakes don't get along.

There is no black on mine....here she is:

http://www.planetnautique.com/vb3/sh...ol-s-06-206-TE

Pic 4 in post 1 was a PN Calender shot (May 2011)

[NCH2oSki]

I'm not sure I follow what the OP is saying, but I think with any narrow hull tourny boat you could get the weight off balance enough and make it chine lock for a short time. I always make my passengers balance their weight out. I hate looking in the mirror and seeing my flat wake all messed up on one side.

We occasionally do a little "chine surfing", when we pull thru another boats wake running the same direction, and stay there. The wife hates it when I do it. Its not anything specific to our 206, as I've done that will every DD boat that we have owned.

[TRBenj]

The only times Ive seen or experienced chine lock is when theres too much weight in the front of the boat at high speeds. Can you give us a bit more info on the conditions under which you experienced this phenomenon?

[HS]

i was thinking about crossing wakes as I read the OP; when the wake being crossed flows over the hull at a different level on the leading side than the following side I see how that might affect handling...maybe the same condition is produced when there is a large weight bias to one side at speed?

[Quinner]

We occasionally do a little "chine surfing", when we pull thru another boats wake running the same direction, and stay there.

That has been my experience with the 206 as well, not so much "stay there" but tough to steer out of, this would be with an evenly weighted boat and 3 up front behind windshield. Boat will lean really hard to one side and kind of lock in there. Usually requires a throttle down and turn to get out.

Timmy, have experienced this a couple times on Green Lake.

[TRBenj]

this would be with an evenly weighted boat and 3 up front behind windshield. Boat will lean really hard to one side and kind of lock in there. Usually requires a throttle down and turn to get out.

3 bodies up front in a boat that already plows (esp with the tower, speakers and other stereo gear), combined with rough water (especially other boat wakes coming at strange angles), I can see how this could happen for sure.

To avoid it, keep the boat weighted evenly side to side and move the weight back as much as possible.

[east tx skier]

In addition to the bow weight, how shallow of water are you in when this is happening? I chine walked an early 90s 205 with a couple of people in the bow when starting off in a turn in shallower than typical water. No boat is immune, but the extra weight up front definitely doesn't help.