Almost ready.......
 

Some shots of an interior shop in Florida, that is almost finished with the interior of a big block sterndrive boat, that will be in the water and running soon.....we hope.

Looks great I would like to learn upolstry but it is so much easier to pay the pro's

Looks like the water test may be this weekend......... with a famous throttleman......pics to follow.

Looks great Charlie! tell the famous guy I said Hi as well :),lol..that the 24 or the 27?

cmon Charlie give us the nrs now. :) looks great! A customers boat or?

Here are some shots from the water test.

This is the resto that my son has been working on. This is the very first pleasure boat that we ever built back in the 70's, Hull #2, it was originally powered by a 280 with a TRS drive and colored yellow.....it now has a new deck also on the old hull.

My son wanted to keep it as original as possible so he kept the drive, but replaced the motor with a big block that has been lovingly massaged by Cobra engines of Miami.

My son and a certain Mr. Saccenti, were playing with the boat last weekend and .......we are walking a very narrow path here, as we want to keep the TRS drive, but we all know that Mr S. won't go in a slow boat, so we are trying to keep the horsepower up, but not enough to blow the drive.

Prop selection still has to be made and then we start dialing it in for speed numbers.

PS Oh yes, at some point we have to put the windshield on too.

Very nice! Congrats...:coolcowboy:

NIIICEEE....Run that bad boy...####

Congrats guys, she looks great !!! Mine went a long time without a windshield lol :) Cant wait for some numbers, I am still messing with prop selection on mine.

looks great Charlie jr.↲
Please share pics of that engine and the engine bay. What hp? ↲
What props are you thinking about? It seems both me and trojan runs BB/Bravo with high slip. ↲
Im above 20 percent no matter what prop i have tested. If i remember correct, i think trojan was the same?

This is taking a lot of patience....and self control....because we have sitting around, just waiting for a good opportunity, a newly reconditioned #3 Speedmaster drive........of course that means we don't have to worry about horsepower anymore and those HP numbers would really climb, along with the $$$ for the engine work....don't you just love boating??

What we are trying to do here is come up with a simple package (carburetor) on a big enough engine to give good speed numbers (mid 70's and up we hope) and not cost a fortune to duplicate.

We feel this package would make a nice second boat for the guys with the big luxo barges with the zillion HP motors. With a boat like this, they could still go boating anytime they wanted and the motor would work every time. Now that is the boating we all love.

Next couple of days more testing and more patience and soon the little punch list will be complete.......anyone in the So Fla area this weekend keep your eyes open for a black bomber on the intracoastal.

The windshield will be on too.....finally !!!!!

I know you have a high drive height like me. did you try a maxus 5 blade by merc or a px5? I had to pull mine apart in sept because of a leak in the gas tank. which will go in next week then the motor goes back in after new glass work. my tank is across the bilge for balance. so no testing until spring for me. having 1st surgery in dec 16th one after so no winter running. but what 5 blades did you try, my baja had a 5'' propshaft height no box slip was 13 to 15% with a b1 4 blade. Art

you guys should try a reman konrad since you have a tranny in the bilge. kurt has posted some good deals on remain drives in the swap before everyonce in a while theres one or two you could use your gimbal to keep cost down and run up to 800hp 800lbtq, plus its shorter than a trs so if your at stock drive height with the boat now the konrad would help more than a 3 plus props are the same as bravo or trs just bigger shaft like xr. good luck charlie. art

sr, jr good luck now.↲
Interesting to hear your evaluation. ↲
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hey art
p5x hydromotive.

Still testing, but the boat can now be seen regularly between Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale, both ocean runs and intracoastal.

The progress is coming by inches now, but we are still going in the right direction....stay tuned.

yes sorry for taking so long, it will be spring for me, had to pull the motor to get to the gas tank. had a new one made and now its cold and I have a operation on the 16th with 3 to 5 month recovery:eek::eek:.

hey guys, good to hear that its going forward. ↲
However, i would certainly appreciate some more details of what har happened along the way... ;) :) ↲
what have you tested and how did it work out? I Want to learn more about these boats and different set ups. What Speed have u seen and how does she feel, handling etc? ↲
I will stay tuned. :) :)

Just saw this, great thread. Can't wait to see the progress!!