Air Dog

I am looking for Pantera performance information for a twin outboard on a bracket set up.

Anyone have a porta product bracket? Porta jack (half jack plate, half bracket).

Thanks

LostinBoston

Thats the set up ive got.
twin 250 mercs on a portabracket.

http://server1.offshoreonly.com/geoc...php?a=2&b=1755

LostinBoston

Oh and it runs 65. I might be trying a larger pitch prop. I think can get another couple of MPH out of it.

Full Throttle 525

Hey Air Dog:

Go to Offshorepowerboats.com and look up the classifieds...Time4Beer has a 28 with twins and he may give you some information...worth a shot.

LostinBoston

Yeah im Time4Beer on OSP.

I just put the boat in the classifieds here also.
Thanks though Ron.

If you want any more info email or call me. Contact info listed with the ad.

Air Dog

Lost in Boston,

Ya, your the guy I'm looking for.

I saw your boat on the Pantera Website. I am looking to do exactly what you did.

I am slowly refurbishing a 1989 24' Banana Boat. Last step is to eliminate the motor well and add a bracket for the twin Outboards.

Jeb Brown who raced Banana Boats raved about the portabracket.

How do you like yours?

I can't decide wether to have the cockpit go all the way to the transom like your Pantera or leave the 1/2 Sun Pad look. Any recommendations?

Did you strenthen your transom with transom knees at all?

Your Pantera is very unique and looks great...

Thanks for the reply.

Chris

LostinBoston

Chris.
I took it all the way to the transom so i could use it for fishing. If your not going to do this i would recommend the half sunpad. As far as strengthing it, Pantera did some of the work, and Edit Marine finished it and did all the rigging. If they felt that it needed to be strengthened, im sure they did. The boat is solid.
I love the portabracket. I keep my boat in the water for 3 days at a time. the bracket allows me to keep the engines fairly close to the hull but be able to lift them up over the transom to tilt them completely out of the water. Also, when the bracket is down all the way i can almost instantly get up on a plane. When running i can trim the bracket up to reduce drage and get better efficiency and more speed. i was originally going to go with jack plates but then decided on this. The portabracket was Eddie Thortons idea. The bracket has a higher lifting range then the plates.

Air Dog

Thanks for the advice.

Did you used to live in Boston?

Anyway you could e-mail me some more pictures of your boat? The ones in the ad won't blow up bigger for a closer look.

Any of the Cabin?

I will pm you my e-mail address.

Chris

Deadsoul

I'm considering purchasing a 28' with twin Merc 525 EFI's. Can anybody with a similiar setup tell me what kind of performance I could expect? Thanks..

rchevelle71

iTrader: (1)

28 with stock twin 502 efi's(415 horse) gets 78, so you should be well over 80.