Not much acceleration in really hard turns

[jkallen21]

I had a boarder drop today about 50 yards from a wake setter. We were going about 15MPH when she dropped and I slowed to about 5 to turn around. I then noticed Mr. Idiot in his pontoon boat trying to squeeze between the wakesetter and our kid who fell.
I did what you all would do and tried to accelerate as fast as possible while making the 180 turn to try to put myself between the idiot and the kid. I was surprised when it seemed like it was taking forever to get up to speed while in that sharp turn. We made it back in time and gave him an earful while everyone on his boat sheepishly looked away.
So is this normal with inboards? Don't get me wrong, the boat has plenty of power (SANTE 220 275HP ZR6 6.0L), but I've always been on straightaways until this happened. It's also my first inboard so I'm learning the mechanical differences. Reverse totally blows by the way.

Thanks!

[JamesHawk101]

I had a boarder drop today about 50 yards from a wake setter. We were going about 15MPH when she dropped and I slowed to about 5 to turn around. I then noticed Mr. Idiot in his pontoon boat trying to squeeze between the wakesetter and our kid who fell.
I did what you all would do and tried to accelerate as fast as possible while making the 180 turn to try to put myself between the idiot and the kid. I was surprised when it seemed like it was taking forever to get up to speed while in that sharp turn. We made it back in time and gave him an earful while everyone on his boat sheepishly looked away.
So is this normal with inboards? Don't get me wrong, the boat has plenty of power (SANTE 220 275HP ZR6 6.0L), but I've always been on straightaways until this happened. It's also my first inboard so I'm learning the mechanical differences. Reverse totally blows by the way.

Thanks!

It is just the same forces that make you slow down during a regular turn while riding. It's just amplified when you aren't on plane in the first place. That's my thinking atleast.

[Nautiquehunter]

Did you have the zero off set?

[Quinner]

As Hunter mentioned, if you are using speed control (perfect pass/zero off) it may be trumping out your applied throttle. Other then that weight will affect handling and acceleration.

[jkallen21]

So, I do have perfect pass, but it's turned off as I don;t use it right now (and I need to replace it's dash guage - just don't have time). I tried this a few more times, and each time it seemed poor. Just come to an almost stop (>5MPH) and turn the wheel all the way and give it gas to get yourself turned around the other direction and get up to speed as fast as possible. It just seems slower at this task than my 04 Sea Ray did.

[Zach@n3]

Fill the Sea Ray full with 1200 lbs ballast and see what it does.

[AirTool]

It just seems slower at this task than my 04 Sea Ray did.

It is and that's one reason the sea ray has the I/O.... so it can have that type of performance....sacrificing the different benefits of the inboard.

My 206 does better in one direction than the other and it does better with the 4 blade prop than the 3. I put on a 3 blade prop for a while and that was the single biggest downfall I felt is that it had no grab/hole shot in a powering/accelerating turn.

[jkallen21]

It is and that's one reason the sea ray has the I/O....

I was waiting for your reply...
This is what I was trying to gauge and was hoping that my subjective reasoning wasn't misleading me. I'm not going back to the I/O or anything and instances where I need that kind of power in an instant are very rare as our lake is not that crowded and only has a few idiots.

Thanks