I know how the boat ran before with the nose cones so I know what to expect. Would like to run it for a while and poss upgrade to a pair of optis. In he future. Thanks for the reply. I'm in central fl. West coast. I'll get better pictures . Hope to be out this weekend. Only ran the boat once so far so looking forward to it.

I didn't catch where you'd already run it w/the cones.
I've had two 24' Sonic twin O/B's and done quite a bit of testing. I know w/mine I've tested motor height on both boats and the props start slipping before I lose water pressure. Wheels can help compensate for this but mostly has to do w/the weight I'm pushing.
I like the idea of the Opti's on yours. I came very close to dropping two E-Tec's on mine.

Interesting to ponder how many different brand boats were built from the same molds. Early Excalibur, P&D, Manta, and a bunch of others I can't remember names of. But it's all good. It's a great design, and a damn good looking boat. I had a 75 Excalibur 24', years back. Hopefully I still have some pics of it.

familiar w/the Manta's. Who's hull is it?
I know my 24' Sonic is a Donzi hull and 100% agree w/your statement.

Previous owner ran nose cones. They were replaced a while back with new mercury lower units. Not sure why.

Curious to see what other boats care out of these molds.

Most 28', 29' 31' non stepped hulls started life from the 27' Magnum by adding some freeboard . The 28' Fever had to be one of the best running Mantas.

Tom, make sure you load your pix's on this thread I started about the multi o/b vee's.

h20, thanks for the history lesson. I assumed that from what I've see but wasn't sure who's was who's.

Tom, I really like the deck on yours.

Thanks Twin OB Sonic. Along with my Magnums I have a 24' Donzi Doral with twin IO's, it does not have anywhere near the performance that you have, your Sonic rocks..

I love the old school stuff. I love the new technology too but the reality of how often most of us run over 50 or need the Kevlar/Carbon Fiber lay up etc, etc vs the reality of how we boat is often way different.
I'm still getting my antique sorted but would put my time/hrs/mls up against most of the high zoot dock queens on this site.
Matter of fact I was feeling bad for not having more mls on the boat due to the teething pains when I found the trip odometer in the GPS on the boat and it had just under 900 mls on it.
Next weekend we head to the Keys w/the boat for a week to try and boost that number.
My junk is ancient but it just does everything well.