Matt Trulio

Well ... I haven't seen it firsthand and my co-editor wrote the story so in addition to respecting your opinion on general principle I have to defer to an educated first-person view. Plus, it does seem that the line between raceboats and pleasure boats has become awfully thin. So I appreciate the discussion and input. It makes me rethink my position, which is never a bad thing. Your two cents is way more valuable than that.

Double Rigged

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Matt,
It is always good to have other perspectives that's what makes our sport so great. You guys do a great job and keep up the good work. Not trying to discard what you wrote by any means. In the end we all wish our boats were race boats LOL!!
I agree that there is a fine line between race/pleasure boats these days.
Carry On!

speicher lane

In most ways I think the pleasure boats have exceeded the race boats. This DW build and the likes of Pure Platinum with his monster cubes/hp mills have been refined with a high level of comfort but an run neck and neck with a dedicated race boat as the hulls are popped from the same mould. It seems that when you order a boat now the race boat is the base version, answer the question light layup y/n... and you build from there and just keep adding comfort

If Merc threw the ultimate bone and came out with a 15" mid 400R - you could literally take any of the DW 32's in the classifieds and tweek the interior to this boats upgrade (less the rif-raff non paying back seat passengers) and literally run your home lake, poker runs and contend in the Worlds at KW. The X-cat 400 prototypes were fast!

Interesting the lengths of the boats making news are the +30' 400R's...up until last spring the builds were about 28's/300xs, monster skaters or dream build MTI's like Ginos and Raising the Steaks.

Ktron and DW put a REALLY nice machine together!

Feverz29

It's seems to be few and far between, but a thread with a great discussion without someone's panties getting bunched up. I think it's great to see Nasty's and this DW taking things to another level and pushing two premier builders. It's great for the sport.

Taboma

Is the "collective we" loosing hate for the Mercury V 400?

Double Rigged

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Not a hater just skeptical!!! The good thing is there are more builds underway. Ktron's boat and another 308 Skater Classic Deck that will be ready for the spring as well as the new MTI. By the way the 308 is not mine!!!!!
There is no doubt they are gaining momentum among the builders and consumers.
Spoke to Troy this morning and they plan to weigh this boat soon and that will help determine the real gains in HP vs weight and whether it is worth the money for the upgrade over the two strokes.

scawd the dog

Impressive #'S!!!!

caseyh

I like skaters very fast, good looking, top of the line boats. but why is it when some other brand competes with it in any way looks ,speed, layup, or what ever people get their britches in a wad?

good job to all involved with the new DW.

CLA

Boat is sick!!

Matt, does it have 12v a/c? What brand?

Comanche3Six

great question.....how cool would that be?