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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vol423" data-source="post: 493709" data-attributes="member: 6621"><p>From an engineering perspective, and from my experience modifying Boats, pods do nothing when a boat is under power other than slow the boat. Designed correctly, they add buoyancy when the boat is at rest.  I have built one prop tunnel boat and tested it extensively. It worked, with the prop completely above the bottom of the boat. But it required a 60" tunnel, manual jackplate plus an hydraulic jackplate to get proper setback. And a $700 propeller. It went fine in a straight line but turns had to be gradual. That's hard to do on a river. I spent all my time tinkering with the motor rather than fishing. I eventually filled in the tunnel converting it to a jet tunnel boat and sold it.</p></blockquote><p></p>