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... how well my boat could perform.

Consistant 4-6 foot true washing machine slop with the occaisional 8-10 foot hole. NO JOKE! Ask anyone out there. I ran the boat through 34 miles of this in the morning, and through another 50 miles of consistant 3-5s with 6-8 foot holes in the afternoon.

MONSOON performed FLAWLESSLY. I will admit to being a little intimidated, but I did not tow 800 miles to sit on the trailer. The boat is solid like a Mo-Fo. I am not going to bash or claim that I could outrun any other boats, but I will say that I had no problem running hard when I wanted to, and I passed quite a few boats when I was hard on it. If you look at the picture threads, just about everyone had their tabs down. I never moved mine from neutral, and I kept the drives straight neutral the whole time. After seeing some of the video at the banquet, I probably could have trimmed the drives out a bit more.

Here are two pics from the afternoon leg (thank you Candyman):

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Looking Good Sydwayz!!! :d

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I was in Northwest Indiana at the dunes state park for a couple hours Saturday afternoon, it was rough, they closed the beach for swimming. Saw one big cat out playing, only boat I saw. It was cool he was a mile or so out and you would see him them he would dissapear under the water then pop back up. Looked to be a red and white??.

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did you ever doubt the boat could handle it after all its an active........


glad to hear you had a great time and the runs great

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Look'n good! And you HAD doubt's? What would Pat say?

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Has your fathers' nuckles turned back to their original color from WHITE yet? :D

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I had the privilage of riding along with Brian on the morning leg of the run and man was I impressed.
Rich his nuckles were fine but he did lose his voice. :D It looked to me like he was having more fun than we were.

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It's no fun if it's not 2 to 4's and 4 to 6's. These boats shine in that kind of water. Brian, you gotta get outta that river!

Used to run the 28 in 6 to 8's in Rhode Island sound. Trimmed neutral with tabs all the way down and she was rock steady and that's the 28! Can't wait to get the 33 out there this coming weekend. We had very flat sticky water in NH last weekend and had disappointing speed runs as a result. Not too mention the bow riders trying to cross my bow at 80+ speeds.

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Sdywayz,

That is one impressive boat. Nice running shots.

BoatFreak28,

Thanks for the ride in the AT, that is one impressive true offshore machine. No question about that has to be one of the best riding 28's build peroid!

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Hey, Brian! Great shots of Monsoon! Sounds like you had a great time in Chicago. I read in the Aug. issue of Powerboat where Jay Ross and Frank Marchone have teamed up with AT. Jay is the VP of product design and development and will oversee day-to-day operations. No word on Frank's position. Did you see the article? See ya!!

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Monsoon was taming the water :evilb:

Finally glad to meet you, thanks for taking the time to drive up here. :D

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Thanks for all the compliments everyone.

There are several boats out there running great speeds with stock power and other boats that are running triple digits without radically huge power. You have the option of building a boat exactly the way you want it; including power. The company is definiately going places. You are going to see a lot of awesome things from AT in the near future; some very soon. Wait until a set of 700SCIs and NXT1 drives gets bolted into a 37AT.

The 37AVH and the 33AVH are truly awesome hulls. Ask Docmanrich37 what a 180* turn feels like with Tres Martin driving. The hull just handles awesome. I was once following Rich through the S-turns at Smith Mountain Lake, and due to idiot boat traffic, I had to carve a hard turn inside of Rich's wake and we literally dipped the rear portion of the rubrail into the water. The boat banked and turned like the highbanks of Talladega Motor Speedway. At one point in Chicago, I had to make an adjustment due to another boater not following the rules of the water, as we are hopping 3-5 foot slop. The boat instantly grabbed and pivoted the 20* turn that I needed like we were on a slot car track with no adverse effect. There is no 2nd or 3rd or Nth step to drift or confuse the hull in this situation The boat just pivots instantly on the one main step and you have now changed your direction. That's it.

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Nice work Brian! It is fun when it gets big!

Clark

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Brian very well said. I wish you had jumped in with that in the gen disc form on the BEST 36 TO 39 FT BOAT thread we needed some good thoughts on there. never having a 37 or 33 it wasn't really my place to say much, you did a good job there. the pics of Monsoon flying would also have been good there

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Great pictures Brian....from a little brother AT owner!!! :cool:

Looks like I'll have a new desktop tomorrow!!!

Nothing like an AT in the rough stuff!! My Tantrum rocks and people can't beleive how well it handles the slop!!! I just tell 'em to look off there bow and watch!!! :D

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Two more helo pics from EBM:

(Notice the throttles; they were straight when I bought the boat!)

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Can't see the throttles. Did you get new canted ones?

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Just a joke really. I still have the original canted Keikaffer throttles, but I am buttering up a friend for set of new ones.

Aside from looks, I never saw the attraction of the expensive throttles until that weekend in Chicago. My arm is still sore from back and forth; back and forth... click click click... click click click.

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:evilb: :evilb:

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Looking Good Brian. Love to see her fly.

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great shots brian, wish i would have known your were going to run chicago i would have loved to shot down and ran with you. side by side flying 37's would have been cool.

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Sorry yz, I did not decide I was going until Thursday at 12 noon, and I left a couple hours later! :D

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no problem, i was in a fun run in n. michigan that weekend as it was. just would have been a cool shot!

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snap pix quick if side by side as the boat disappears in the little lake water we had last weekend :eek:

__OK computer wiz...Syd-around....how did you do that???

u hoser :evilb: