Tom F

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.

Twin O/B Sonic

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.

David

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.

Twin O/B Sonic

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.

Tom F

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

Tom F

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

h2oboater

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.

Twin O/B Sonic

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.

h2oboater

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..

Twin O/B Sonic

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.