IF A 496 BOAT IS $ 199 K AND THE 525 PACKAGE ONLY $ 30 K MORE FOR THE PAIR WHY IS THERE SO MUCH MORE OF A MARK UP ? IN THIS ECONOMY. YOU WOULD BE BETTER OFF BUYING THE 496'S AND THEN PULLING THEM OUT AND PUTTING IN BIGER POWER OR DO A RAYLAR KIT ON BOTH MOTOR'S FOR $ 20 K AND SPEND THE $2 TO $3 K FOR THE UPGRADE XR DRIVE'S WITH THE 496 SO WHEN YOU UPGRADE THE POWER YOU ARE GOOD TO GO . EITHER WAY IT LOOK'S LIKE IT SHOULD BE A $ 30 K DIFFRNCE IN PRICE BETWEEN THE 2 MOTOR PACKAGE'S .
UNLESS THAT $ 280 K IS MSRP AND YOU HAVE TO BE TALKED DOWN TO $ 230 K OR LESS .
MIKE

I remember. Alot of hype, no names or faces, no boat.

Will history repeat itself?

Tough crowd

Thats pretty cool; good luck with your new venture.

Mike,
With the 525 boat there are more standard features such as a class A faired and finished engine room, a Fully Infused hull, and a non-wood stringer system. By the way I am not trying to sound like a prick, but the pricing sheet that I got from Mercury shows my cost to be alot more than 30k for the pair.


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THAT'S GOOD NEW'S I DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS A DIFFRENT BUILD PROCESS ON THE 2 DIFFRENT BOAT'S BUT IM GLAD YOU POINTED THAT OUT . THE 525 BOAT WILL BE ALOT LIGHTER THEN THE 496 BOAT .
AS FAR AS OEM PRICING . THE LAST TIME I LOOKED AT THE SHEET 496HO PACKAGE WAS AROUND $ 20K AND THE 525 PACKAGE WAS AROUND $33 K A PEICE. MAYBE THE PRICE WHENT UP SOME BUT IT CANT BE THAT MUCH .
BUT WITH THE EXTRA WORK AND LAYUP THAT YOUR DOING TO THE BOAT WILL HELP JUSTIFY THE PRICE . SO WHAT SPEED DO YOU THINK WITH TWIN 496HO'S STAG WITH THE HEAVY LAYUP ?,

THANK'S
MIKE

upper 70's to lower 80's



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Dude, please stop claiming you have some guy who invented positive lift hulls, unless he was designing airplanes back in the 1930's its not the guy!!! Here is a picture of positive lift step hull on a float plane from 1934
http://www.technologysite.org/PixFlo...tPlanes/1.html

or

http://images.search.yahoo.com/image...sigb=13l90vne5

If you want to say he "improved" positive lift step hulls I can dig it, but anything else is a false claim.

THAT IS STILL GREAT #S FOR A 40 FT. BOAT .
WILL YOU BE AT THE MIAMI SHOW ?

Well I got a phone call last night from one of the partners that was from Baja Marine involved with this project. There is a good chance that XT-Innovations could be involved with designing, and building the interiors for them?

XT