A pair of electric or electro-hydraulic trim tabs should be on the short list of indispensable marine accessory equipment on board any planing powerboat. (It’s the first upgrade I made to my EdgeWater ...

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Interceptors are not trim tabs. Yes, they are planes or foils installed on the transom of a boat that, when deployed, act to affect the trim of the boat in the fore and aft, and port and starboard ...

Trim tabs — in case there’s a boater out there who hasn’t yet run across them — are flat, adjustable planes attached to the bottom of the boat at the stern that help the skipper to level the boat in ...

I just had to replace the trim tabs on Nomad after completely losing one when it broke off at the hinge. To help keep this from happening again, I decided to install safety/limiting cables on our tabs ...