We had the sea trial and engine certification this past weekend. Here are a few pictures from the weekend;

Lunch break, The Bridge Restaurant on Fort Myers Beach. I thought it was pretty cool that all the systems worked well enough on the first day out that we could take the boat to a restaurant for lunch.

Making the plans for the rest of the afternoon;

cool kiddies

Gettin' some tail ....

more to come tomorrow ...

T

Looks great, do you have much dialing in to do ?

Did ya keep the same gear ratio it had before ?


Jon

Incredible...

It's pretty close. Some prop tweaking and a few cosmetics and it'll be done. The gear ratio is 1.5

T

another view ...

Looks Fantastic Tom !

Looks awesome!

Hubba Hubba! Looks great! :cool-smiley-011:

Thank you for the comments. A few more shots that were on the other camera:

getting ready to go in the water;

beautiful boat,spectacular restoration............ keep up the good work. could you post some pictures of the back seat area.

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?

Jon

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.

Tom

Looks great Tom! Can't wait to see it blowing past me this winter!

WOW !!!!!!!
It looks AMAZING !!!!

All the best,
Hans

Looks great!!! Those are some lucky kids!

Nice work Tom. Wow, I knew you had taken on this project and looks like you have done a first class job. :D
Can we put a FMO sticker on it ? LOL
Look forward to running with on the Gulf waters before long.:D
Bob

Hey Tom,

Glad to see her in the water. That was an incredible project to undertake and I hope you really enjoy the results. Now it seems like we should have a fun run for your coming out.:D

Will you take it to key west in nov.

Looks great tom,

Looks like we have some more company on the fun runs (in the front of the pack).

I'm not completely comfortable with the term "your coming out". Not that there's anything wrong with that.:D

I'm looking forward to running the gulf with all the FMO members. I doubt I'll be keeping up with Dennis or Bob but we'll have some fun!

Thanks for the comments.

Tom

Incredible!!!
I am looking forward to seeing you out on the water Tom. Beautiful boat!

was that off duty under the sanibel island bridge today?

I saw that baby in person awhile back, it was amazing. Mark did a great job, it was cool to see it again, I got to see it when it was brand new in St. Joe @ one of APACHE CARL'S Pier 33 poker runs.

yes it was powerboat mag is in town doing their photo shoot.

Can't go anywhere without someone on OSO reporting on you. :)

Powerboat magazine is running performance trials this week at the Sanibel Harbor resort. They did not get to finish the trials in Sarasota. So, there were a bunch of boats around the bridge today.

Tom ... are they doing a write-up on your boat ?

Steve ... Maybe with Smoke gone ... It might be time for Carl to blow the dust off the Pier 33 Poker Runs ???? Hmmmmm ?

Yes. I do not have any details to share.

T

Cool ! Looking forward to seeing the article .

A great powerboat! What top speed was achieved?

just read the whole thread, great read, restoration, and project... congrats to all involved...

Where is this boat now?

I was just speaking with MegaByte*3 about this boat yesterday. It went to Europe ( not exactly sure where ) about 2 or 3 years ago. He said they got over 700 hrs out of the Teague 900's and it now has 700's in it which is likely underpowered. I will mention the thread being resurrected again and he may have some comment.
Bob

That's incredible!

Went to the first Powerboat P1 head. He put a big lightbar on it and made it the paceboat.

Wonder were it is now, thats been ~2 years?

JB..Did you have the mag article where Off Duty raced the Ferrari?