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:) My starter boat was a peace of oak door in a creek. You'r doing waaaay better.

haha, yea i try to live by the saying, work hard, play hard

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Originally Posted by TripleG (Post 3604933)

yea i put a down payment on it so once it comes out of storage and i hear run and drive it, its as good as mine, proably just going to leave it alone for a while and just enjoy it. I've grown up on a boat, and used my dad's 96 21ft chapparal with 350 and alpha pretty much every weekend these past 2 summers. But I hear what your saying, and yes i didnt think would be a bad start for being 21

Good to hear! And that's a sweet starter boat. Should give you low to mid 50's, sound sweet, and run that SEI drive into the ground! The warranty like the guys are saying is pretty good! She should fly well enough for some good air time too :daz:

Yea man, cat beat the sound of that boat, just straight thru hulls out the back, nothing better. And the chicks like the sun pad too

I started off with a '86 22' Avanti myself back in the early 1990's. It's really a very capable little boat for its size. I should have left it stock. I ended up with a supercharged 355 in it, k-planes and re rigged the whole boat (the stock rigging was pretty bad). When all was said and done it had roughly 420 hp and ran 66 mph on fumes in cool air. The stringer problem at the fuel tank bulkhead that was mentioned earlier got me when all the tabbing let go after a rather spirited run. I ripped out the bulkhead and replaced the whole structure. The bottom was definitely wavy, and you can imagine how long the alpha lasted, but if you leave it stock.....it's a great starter boat! Enjoy it!

i live near the place they were built. there are a lot of them on the delaware river near philly. biggest problems i hear about are broken motors. and you can't blame the hull for that...or can you?

Always liked the paint on yours Peter. Thanks for the the ride at jax a few years back

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Originally Posted by dereknkathy (Post 3648500)

i live near the place they were built. there are a lot of them on the delaware river near philly. biggest problems i hear about are broken motors. and you can't blame the hull for that...or can you?

If you're asking the guy who built the motor - it's definitely the hulls fault! :lolhit:

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Originally Posted by Cigster (Post 3648765)

If you're asking the guy who built the motor - it's definitely the hulls fault! :lolhit:

yup, if it didn't ride so good at full throttle, he'da pulled off the power some...

You know....with that little hull, that's true! It reminds me of a guy I knew 20 years ago with a 26' Corsa that blew up his Blown BBC's monthly. He said the boat got out of line so rarely (it ran 85 at the time), that he never felt compelled to pull off the power. Any mild small block or even mild big block in calm waters in a 22 Avanti would present a similar issue. The Avanti's no 26 Corsa, but without wild power, it's rock solid in fairly calm waters.

Actually the Avanti's rock solid in rough stuff. They don't like calm water. The rougher the better, especially the 27's and 33's.

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Originally Posted by bowtie (Post 3650614)

Actually the Avanti's rock solid in rough stuff. They don't like calm water. The rougher the better, especially the 27's and 33's.

Yesterday I wished for some calmer waters n Tampa Bay.
Didn't do the FPC Poker Run, but I met up with the group at the lunch stop. After lunch we took our time getting out of there, but when I dropped my phone in the water we spent 1/2 hour looking for it. No luck. Soon after we finally got under way, we got stuck in a terentual downpour and six to eight's serious dishwasher waters. Dark, wet, windy, cold, but My Lady safely got us back to the ramp. Beat to chit, back pain, sour knees, but the Avanti showed again her true rough water side.
Did I say rough?, I meant crazy scary. :helmet:

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Originally Posted by KEVLARKAT32 (Post 3603665)

Not picking one anybody but I have to chime in . I worked in the 80's for Dennis @ Jet-set marine who made the Avanti . Back in the early 80's there wasnt much out there in a way of these boats unlike today , that said I know first hand as having a hand building these boats and owning 2 - 27 ft they are one of the worst lay-up I have ever seen , wavy , delamanation issues , old munster looking deck . I know for a fact we tried to warn Dennis but he wanted to hear nothing and guess what theyre long gone . They really got bad fron 1986 on as some of his best guy's moved on .

Go ahead beat me up but the last 1996 27 ft Avanti I owned the inner cockpit liner rubbed through the bottom and always leaked as well as a 4 ft crack on the keel from the transom forward . I bought as a beater and unloaded it after a month when I discoverd the engine stringers stopped @ the fuel tank bulkhead and they were just tabbed together . For those who dont know how to build boats , the engine stringer cannot be 4 ft long and tabbed together @ fuel tank bulkhead on new const , they need to go forward

Larry

I’ve had 2 avantis in the past year 1 was a 86 avanti 27 European hull with the arch and side scoops (sold that earlier in the year) and a 88 27 which I currently have now former race boat nasty habit. They seem to be built well from what I know and held up pretty well being from the 80s not doubting you at all just from my knowledge and the ones I’ve been in contact with seem like there built well