Rough water: 32 skater vs 38 TG, at what point does the 32 loose it's edge??
07-29-2013, 01:00 PM
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Go buy a Top Gun lol.
The skater on the right is 368 with 525s and sixes, the one that left the 38 Top gun in rough water in the ocean.
The yellow cat is a Skater and the white and red is another 36 Skater. Comparing a 38 Top Gun to a 32 Skater is awesome.
Obviously you can not compare a 36 Skater to 38 V lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpHTsqgb5EE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ep6-B8y994
The skater on the right is 368 with 525s and sixes, the one that left the 38 Top gun in rough water in the ocean.
The yellow cat is a Skater and the white and red is another 36 Skater. Comparing a 38 Top Gun to a 32 Skater is awesome.
Obviously you can not compare a 36 Skater to 38 V lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpHTsqgb5EE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ep6-B8y994
07-29-2013, 06:51 PM
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Never can figure out why people take their hands off the wheel to adjust trim that's directly above the hand on the throttles. Espeacially when you're not even close to coming out of the water and need to work the sticks.
07-29-2013, 07:20 PM
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he was toying with the video boat,this is a good video of both below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQwRXOAwI6k
07-29-2013, 09:02 PM
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I would take the V-bottom on Lake Erie.... there is a reason we have only like 3 cats around that I have seen in western Erie...a 55MTI, 36 Skater, and a 30 something, .... on our poker runs unless its 2ft or less, the V's have always walked them.... gets hairy on west Erie slop, ocean or deeper lake may be different.....unless you been out on Erie... you have no idea... this isn't Loto or the Ozarks...
07-29-2013, 09:54 PM
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The 32 B will smoke the T/G in almost any seas.... but why are you comparing something 6 feet shorter? How about a 36 or 38 Skater against a 38 T/G?.
Point of fact...in 1981 a very talented guy named Willie Diaz won the Sport CLass (Twin injected Keith Eickhert Aluminum small blocks)Offshore National and World Championships (When that meant something) in a 36 Cigarette, "El Boss". The following winter, he bought a 30 Shadow Cat and powered it identically (Saccenti rigged both boats). He kept both boats for the following season thinking he would use the Cig in "rough" races, of which there were plenty in those days ( Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean with 30 mile laps and races all over 100 miles in length.... He thought he might use the cat for a few calmer days. He tried the cat in the first race in New Orleans on Lake Pontchartrain (again 30+ mi laps)......and never raced the Cigarette again. He won the World and National Championships again that year and the videos of that boat
To me the real question is not if the cat is better...it is whether you can handle it in a reasonable fashion instead of pushing it over its limit to try and demolish some guy in a slower Vee. Simply go one mph faster and shortly you will be well away from him.....
Nuff said..
T2x
Point of fact...in 1981 a very talented guy named Willie Diaz won the Sport CLass (Twin injected Keith Eickhert Aluminum small blocks)Offshore National and World Championships (When that meant something) in a 36 Cigarette, "El Boss". The following winter, he bought a 30 Shadow Cat and powered it identically (Saccenti rigged both boats). He kept both boats for the following season thinking he would use the Cig in "rough" races, of which there were plenty in those days ( Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean with 30 mile laps and races all over 100 miles in length.... He thought he might use the cat for a few calmer days. He tried the cat in the first race in New Orleans on Lake Pontchartrain (again 30+ mi laps)......and never raced the Cigarette again. He won the World and National Championships again that year and the videos of that boat
To me the real question is not if the cat is better...it is whether you can handle it in a reasonable fashion instead of pushing it over its limit to try and demolish some guy in a slower Vee. Simply go one mph faster and shortly you will be well away from him.....
Nuff said..
T2x
07-30-2013, 06:25 AM
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Again, the 32A will not run (safely) in bigger water with a TG. A 32B probably will and a 36 or 38 will no doubt walk all over it, but this isn't the question the OP is asking.
To me the real question is not if the cat is better...it is whether you can handle it in a reasonable fashion instead of pushing it over its limit to try and demolish some guy in a slower Vee.
Nuff said..
T2x
Nuff said..
T2x
