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Old 08-07-2007 | 01:28 PM
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Looks awesome!
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Old 08-07-2007 | 02:03 PM
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Hubba Hubba! Looks great!
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Old 08-07-2007 | 04:15 PM
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Thank you for the comments. A few more shots that were on the other camera:

getting ready to go in the water;
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Old 08-07-2007 | 05:39 PM
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beautiful boat,spectacular restoration............ keep up the good work. could you post some pictures of the back seat area.
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Old 08-07-2007 | 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by MegaByte*3
It's pretty close. Some prop tweaking and a few cosmetics and it'll be done. The gear ratio is 1.5

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Didn't it have 1.35's on there before ? Why did ya decide to go to the 1.5's and do you like it better ?

Trailer looks nice is that new too?

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Old 08-08-2007 | 08:28 AM
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In the water.

Notice that the sunpad is not on the engine hatch. I anticipated that the hatch would be up and down all weekend with wrenching going on in the engine compartment. I made the decision to leave the hatch and rear seat head-rests off so that we could avoid the greasy hand print syndrome. Well, I was completely wrong. A single adjustment to the throttle position sensor and we were off and running. That's a real testament to the quality of the design / build work done by Teague on the motors, and the painfully detailed installation work done by McManus' team. My thanks to both organizations for a successful sea trial. I am very pleased with the results.

To answer some questions: Yes, it did have 1.35 drives before. We installed bigger power than before and empirical data from other Apache boats indicated that 1.5 ratio drives would be the correct choice.

The trailer has also been completely refurbished.

Thanks for your kind comments.

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Old 08-08-2007 | 09:04 AM
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Looks great Tom! Can't wait to see it blowing past me this winter!
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Old 08-08-2007 | 10:00 AM
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WOW !!!!!!!
It looks AMAZING !!!!

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Old 08-08-2007 | 12:24 PM
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Looks great!!! Those are some lucky kids!
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Old 08-17-2007 | 09:05 AM
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Nice work Tom. Wow, I knew you had taken on this project and looks like you have done a first class job.
Can we put a FMO sticker on it ? LOL
Look forward to running with on the Gulf waters before long.
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