boat pulling to port when using motor!! Distress!

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Your prop looks like it has 3x the pitch mine does.  Could just be the angle the pic was taken. 
How about two  pics of your prop from the back and side? 

The angle of your ss shaft between the shaft log and the cutlass bearing being off 1/8'' is misaligned by only .23 degrees.   (If the shaft log is about 9 inches in total length and the shaft coupling is about 9'' from the stuffing box based on a 55'' long prop shaft and 1.25'' ID shaftlog.) 

You could misalign the the shaft to the other side and see if pulls to starboard....

Mine was misaligned this much (rub marks on the shaft from the log) and I noticed no "driveability" improvements after straightening everything out.





Dan & Dar
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