Not another 25 Outlaw story.......
 

I´m an englishman living in Stuttgart, Germany and would like to introduce myself and my Baja.
After having spent a dozen years of what I thought was adventurous boating I bought a 2003 25 Outlaw. Life hasn´t been the same since! Hey, this is pure addiction. I´ve spent a couple of evenings reading through various threads, and can see that this virus isn´t new and its definitely an epidemic. Wild Card got its name and the F1 number after I discovered the story about the factory entry in Powerboat mag.
The boat came over from Ilinois in early 2004 with only 5 hours on it, although the first owner (name unknown) took delivery of it from Grand Sport Center in July 2002. I bought it in July 2005 with 70 hours on it (scanned the ECU - numbers ok and no bad history) This boat was like new. Everything was tight like a virgin. Its now got 150 hours on it. I did a 110 mile Poker run the day after I bought it and a liquid quarter mile event in september. I used it for four weeks down in St Tropez (where we took the helicopter shots). Ran alongside an Apache called Tsunami several times down there. They and the Cigs (TGs and Glads) were always friendly, waved and were often surprised how fast we were out on the open water.
I´m really happy with and proud of my 25!
Oh yes, its a 496HO and it does the 67 GPS at 4900 on a labbed 25(6) B1. 525EFI coming up!

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Welcome aboard.

Very nice looking boat!

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Wild Card

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another pic!

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Its ok, I´ll stop this soon........

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Thanks Dock. Great to be aboard.

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Welcome to the family! Sharp boat. :drink:

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Thanks crsnang....but there are alot of sharp and really fast 25´s on this forum. I´m impressed. I thought i had billeted and bezelled just about everything to be addressed on my boat, but I´ve already gathered so much new information and ideas from you people. Great work.

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Good to see that your not getting it wet......Nice looking boat glad to here even the brits are happy.

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The pictures are awesome! Better watch out for low flying planes! :D

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another proud 25 ol owner. welcome to the board.you guys need to stop buying the 25ol. im running out of people to sell mine to.

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Looks great, good pics, welcome to OSO

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Sweeeeet paint! Welcome aboard :D

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What's up with your S.B.R.T. subscription? :D

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Ahhhh... A new signature, ehh? Can't wait to get back up there. I was thinking "Quebec Ass" would be apropriate.... :D

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Be patient Pinochio, count down still running... :eek: :D

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Welcome to the family. Looks like you already found out what that boats good for. :D

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nice welcome aboard :D

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Nice pics! Welcome to the board!

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Cool boat,good air. Heres a pic of my plane jane looking baja 272,not as sporty looking as the outlaws but usually a little faster :D ,Smitty

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AHHH Smitty, Quit being so modest!

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Yep, I can believe that. My friend, Andy´s 272 just leaves me standing on acceleration (identical 496´s) and has even a tenth of a mile on me on top speed, too. And his boat´s got a lovely thick coat of antifouling (from the previous owner) on its bottom! The acceleration of his boat leads me to believe that the 272 is a good 2-300 pounds lighter than the Outlaw. The Outlaw does show better manners in the rough stuff. However next season he will have a set of (Victory) tabs on his boat too. To complete the picture I should mention that he has a 23 Accelerator prop that seems to bring out the best in a 272 (I´ve tried it on the OL and it wasn´t that good - loosing grip in mid range due to the higher x dim.) I run a merc labbed 25 Bravo. We both see 67 at 4900!

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I was "stirring" the pot a little :D ,I spin a 32 pitch labbed at 5800 at 92.7 mph and my boat looks completely stock when its in the water. Just about every time I'm out boating someone in a stock new 25 outlaw w/496comes up to me and wants to runthinking that my older 272 at most would have a slower 502 mpi in it. Imagine their surprise when I let them go WFO,match speeds with them and lean on it a little,Smitty

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Wow, that´s impressive. A real stealth Baja! There must be quite a number of low hour 25OL´s in your area coming up for sale pretty soon :cool: :cool: with very dissillusioned owners :evilb:
I can´t imagine what 93 in a 27 foot boat feels like. Don´t tell me - the chine walking and the porpoising all stops at 85 !!! :D :D

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Most (95%) of the chinewalking stopped when I put the twin ram full hydraulic to the helm steering on the boat. If I try to cruise at 65-70 the boat has a slow front to rear porpoise once you are no longer accellererating if the trim tabs are neutral/retracted. The most evil thing it does is if you are running real light(no gas or passengers) and I'm running the 32 pitch and then you whack the throttle to wfo between 45-60 mph it torque steers bad until hull airs out for about 3 seconds but simple running at least 50 gals of gas and putting a passenger in back seat or full cooler and you'd never know it did it,Smitty
I made replacement trim tabs to go in place of the bennets that are 50% longer,they help also.