all depends on how you use the boat and how the set up work IMO. adding more gear is better on the lower half of the boats performance curve IMO. like 3.73 gears to 4.10 in a truck, more gear more get up and go, roughly the same here (pushing air not tires to pavement) more gear allows for more pitch. look at the sweet spot of your blades and try to achieve max efficiency at that blade speed and angle of attack. i thought about switching to a 2.3:1 (14x7 robichaux - 540 BBC 2:1 3 blade NGR 80") keep the same blade but able to pitch more, im currently at pitch mark 2 with this set (alot of motor roughly 650hp and TQ) so im getting more push by having a large motor. i think it would benefit you being you are from Louisiana and we do alot of running shallow, heavy, and dry ground running down here. like i said all depends on the boats intended use. trade off get up and go for go and gone. tractor or truck
i stuck to the 2:1 cause the boat does everything i need it to do and then some by brute force. i may be wrong above but it opinion right??? lol
