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Recently bought a used pleasure/ski boat. It had the original aluminum prop on it that had been beat to a pulp. I ordered a new stainless prop but needed to at least test the boat in the meantime. I just could not bear to run a prop that ugly so I pulled it off and went to work on it. Put all new edges on it, thinned the leading edges, squared the trailing edges and put some good cup in it. The guy I bought the boat from said it would just reach 40MPH with only two people in the boat. With the same prop just worked over, it ran 51MPH with six people in the boat. The funny part is bending cup into that full size aluminum prop is easier than bending cup into a 1667!