Rbob - same boat but different, but the same lol... Winter projects, good time for them but a lot of work, the amount of which I conveniently forgot about while out camping and fishing.
Brian, it's probably a good thing to clarify in the plans, although I would pretty much put the onus of this issue on me for not paying enough mind to the potential for trim issues to happen as well as putting a single long tank in. If I had put two tanks like most everyone else does I don't think this would have been an issue at all, or at least very minimal, even with the vastly increased displacement of the Kodiak version of the boat. At any rate, even with my bow down trim my boat is phenomenal and can only get better in my mind. It's a bit of work to improve and dial it in to how I use it and make it a better fit for myself and my family moving forward, but it's also cool to know that I can do the work to make a difference and make it better, which isn't something that someone who buys a boat off the showroom floor has much of an option of doing. And yeah, I am definitely less prone to a wave over the stern right now, so feature not a bug right?

Ultimately if I can get it closer I will be happy, it doesn't have to be perfect.