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Originally Posted by rickinnj

Last winter I plunked down a chunk of change on the Featherstream (by the way, it's 11x7, not 12x7 as I said earlier...still too much prop)

Says who and to what degree? The 12x7 might be a little aggressive but it's not terrible, certainly not so big as to be the sole cause of your performance problem. I'd guess there were well more than a thousand Catalina 30's powered with direct drive A4s and 12x7 two blade props from the factory that performed reasonably well.