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09-01-2006, 12:24 PM

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Re: Kevlar TGs

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This is why you have to have big power to make them work correctly. Mine is a 2000 with 650hp and I have to run tab until 55-60mph just to keep the front down so I can see where I'm going after that no tab and a little trim and get ready to fly. The hardest thing about these hulls are keeping the props in the water so you don't keep breaking drives. If everything is OK after 75mph then that's great. These hulls were designed for racing. At 75-80mph mine is like a 10,000 pound torpedo flying (straight as an arrow) across the top of the water. Anybody that has one with stock power (500hp) will never see the boat work correctly.

GREAT POST!!!!

09-01-2006, 01:03 PM

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Thanks.

09-01-2006, 03:46 PM

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I may have just bought a 2000 tg with 500 efi's. I read the last post and am wondering what is meant by saying that the boat with that power will never see the boat run correctly? Is that combination with a flat nonstep hull a good one?

09-01-2006, 03:55 PM

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Is that the one at the marina??? Did you not like the Fountain??

09-01-2006, 05:02 PM

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Before I owned my 2000 TG (nonstep 650+hp) I would read threads about porpoising problems with them and it would make me wonder what they are talking about! These boats have got to be better than that! Well they are. They just need a lot of power to see the full potential or the reason why they are such a HOT boat. The boat needs to go 75-80+mph to see this. Now this does mean you have to go 80mph all the time it just means you have had gone 80mph to understand why the boat works the way it does. Now when I drive mine I usually cruise about 55-65mph which is perfect. The part about the boat that appears to be the problem to a lot Owner is the porpoising. The porpoising is because the boat is going to slow this is fixed with tab (until you are going about 55mph) and tab slows you down. If you have a TG that only go 65 you will never see the best part of what the TG is all about. Yes it will still be fun but it's like driving a plane down the runway and trying to take off at half speed. It probably won't work correctly!! When you here stories about porpoising and running a lot of tab and hard to handle it is because the boat wants to go fast. Get use to tab and enjoy!!

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09-01-2006, 06:52 PM

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jmackin my friend owns your old top gun keyed up it lives in jersey now

09-01-2006, 08:00 PM

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jmackin my friend owns your old top gun keyed up it lives in jersey now

How is he and boat doing?

09-01-2006, 08:14 PM

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great boat still looks like new.he had the motors out this year to clean up the bilge and fix gimble rings and paint transom assemblies. he bought it last summer .