CHRIS CAT SPEED, are they that slow???
 

Someone here bought a project boat I looked at 3 years ago. 1987 chris cat 31 with stern drive.

He ran it this summer, converted to 3 x 2.5 outboard. You know what?

He's only running 76 mph, with a guesstimate of 150$ / hour at roughly 45-50 mph...

Man I can hardly believe this! Do you guys think this is normal? are they gas eater that much?

What prop pitch, ratio, and rpm?
The IOs can be hard to initially set up which can cause a lot of slippage. Guessing the OBs are not different.

The 30 Chris Cat race boats were running over 100 back in the mid 80's with triple 2.4's.

I dont know much about the outboards, but my 1985 Chris consistantly runs past 115gps with 736hp 509's gm heads etc. Not to mention it handles rough well, with old school SSM III drives and big shafts, we had a great summer and finished the Lake Cumberland Poker Run without a hitch. Most boats we have ran with are well over $50k more and we have just as much fun!!!:D

can you post a picture of your boat? always curious to see these cats!

here are a couple of greencards chris cat.

nice cat

r u selling this cat?

Everything has a price:D...513 383 0844 Andy

greencard! you need to tell the price publicaly if you want your price to increase by too many poeple wanting the boat! So... $$$ ?