For the doubters and 7% slip:

I was in a 1-1.5 ft chop so the boat was getting some air under it. My estimation at the rpm may be off--I have never been 83 before and I was pretty stoked at the time. (may have been more)

The speed was by GPS and did it twice.

Not doubting your speed. I had to work at mine to get 9.8% some guys are running 12 or more. I was thinking your tach may be off if you used GPS.

Congrats. I bet thats a blast with that much power in your python!

on my gps i get def. numbers all the time and when it not clear out it takes longer to read i had two gps on my boat and one was 2mph faster on my boat when i am at 5300rpms i am doing 80mphi ran 5600rpm yesterday. thats great you are running over 80 there is not a lot of boats that run that speed.becareful and safe boating

here my boat running over 80 http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperBaj.../2/jmnD9VV_jB0

Congrats F-Tomato!!

I have finally seen 70 (70.7 GPS) in my 1989 Python 24. I have more to go as I am only spinning 4500 on my 502 with 4-blade 25P Hydromotive.

I NEVER would have trusted running my 24/7 this hard until I installed full hydraulic steering. In fact I soiled myself a couple of times before I did.

Great work - keep us posted on your speed runs. I definitely have something to shoot for (and a lot of work to get there).

Nice videooo, what size fuel line are you running,??? 3/8,7/16or 1/2???

Your slip numbers may be close, I ran the numbers on mine and came up with similar slip #s. I know my drive is very high and the boat is light..



I included a pic of my 83 MPH run at the LOTO shootout.