Cool boat - always liked the paint. Moved my Sea Ray from Loto to FMB last year - hope to see you out and about...

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Congrats that is a beautiful ride, and no headaches with Phil going thru everything.

Congratulations just in time for Santa!!

Beautiful - Congratulations!

You have come a long way since your old 28 Apache, love those colors looks great.

I have had 3 Cigarette's since then, 2002 30ft Mystique, 2003 35 T/S Mistress and now my 2007 38 Top Gun :)

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awesome boat....how does she run? any plans to add power?

How different is the ride from your 35?
Very nice!

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That's is a beautiful boat. How does it ride compare to your 35 in the rough?

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Here we GO lol

Your not alone on the little faster.

What does it run now?

84.2 with a full tank of gas and worn out 30P Bravo 1's

X2 on a little faster, absolutely beautiful boat, congrats

Saw you this past Saturday afternoon right under the Ft Myer's Beach bridge. Beautiful looking boat, looked like you had a full crew !!

Throw some Whipples on it!

We were on our way to Salty Sams, we had a FMO lunch get together earlier in the day. Thanks :)

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Beautiful Gun WMF. In 2 years my wife and I are going to be looking for a condo in your area. We spend every Christmas and New Years at Sanibel and love it. Would love to stop in and see that beautiful boat in person. Pics never do these boats justice. Are you planning on coming to Pirates on Lanier this year, you won't be disappointed?

Love it in Cape Coral, we have a 2nd home there, are primary residence is in Delaware. The boat stay's at Sanibel Harbor Marina in the winter, and back in Delaware in the summer. I wont be doing the Pirates of Lanier run, sorry. But when you are you are down in Sanibel again let me know.

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Rookie question:

When you have external transom mounted water pickups, how do you avoid burying them in the sand / sucking up sand when you beach? I guess same question for bravo style / drive water intakes that may be even deeper....

(Shut down early and coast onto the sand bar? then push off and not fire back up until in a few feet of water???

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Frick, usually when u pull up to the beach, the back of the boat is 20ft off the beach, so your in deep water. If your in a shallow area, you hit it right on the button with the early shut down and a push off before restarting.

what about 18" dia props kicking up all the sh!t and your intakes pulling in sand?

Usually drives are in about 3-4 ft of water so it's not a problem. Trim drives way up and come in slow. Sea strainers should catch anything coming in. We beach ours around here quite a bit and never had a problem.

What about getting stuck :faint2:

Just be carefull throttle goes a long way. Just don't want to get into a position that is tough to get out of.

Stuck? Cigarettes don't get stuck!

Nice job on the rigging on those engines

for some reason I just saw this thread. Man that boat is beautiful. Congrats....I love blues, purples.....

I agree......sweet ride

The water at the Cayo Costa beach were we beached the boat is very deep right off the back of the boat, very big drop off, so there is no problem with sucking anything up, drive one, back right off :)
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