Pitch is becoming an increasingly familiar term to boating enthusiasts interested in purchasing aftermarket outboard propellers for their watercraft. Usually defined as the distance a propeller will move through a soft medium such a balsa wood after one full turn of the blades, pitch is an idealized figure that is rarely seen in actual use [...]
Those new to boating might not have heard of propeller pitch, but is it one of the most important specifications that propellers possess. Propeller pitch is a basic term used to describe a propeller. The pitch measurement communicates what kind of performance a boating enthusiast can expect from a given unit. In effect, prop pitch [...]
Boating enthusiasts who go shopping for Yamaha boat propellers will quickly realize that like all sporting activities, boating has a vocabulary all its own. Nowhere is this truer than in the field of aftermarket propellers, where terms such as “diameter,” “pitch,” and “rake” are used all the time, in many cases without explanation. Use this [...]