just as a point of info, i had a 328 race skater (which is now on lake cumberlands website) with 2.5s , and while it had better acceleration (60-100 mph) than the doug wrights, the max I saw out of it was 108mph. great boat in the rough though

Sarasota to Venice. no excuses

pick your wheelmen

Loser buys lunch.

Settle the way we used to before the raceboats.

m

GIT-R-DONE
i've been known to wheel an outboard cat in the bump once or twice !! Tantrum or DPT can verify that !!

PUT ME IN COACH!!!!!! I have been a DW supporter since I met him in NYC with GB. I know some history on DW that is really sweet knowledge to me. More to do with what he was doing before he was building boats. Let's just say I had a few of his designs before the boats even came into play.

I became an even bigger supporter when I got to crawl inside one of his masterpieces and to date my favorite boat that he has built. That boat being DL's LOAN SHARK. in race trim and in pleasure trim. By far the BEST outboard powered cats on the water. PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surf's Up Bro !!

Dan you bringing here to KW...made my reservations just now !!

Sarasota was 3ft this week-end. Too much fun to run in unfortunately no one was out in the gulf but me.




I will be in Key West for sure.


Its up in the air currently if LS will make the trip. This will be a great event.

Im flying into Miami, Thursday landing at like 2pm and will have a rental car waiting at airport...and we fly out of Miami monday late afternoon

speed update
 

Speed update for LS

82 degrees outside. 81 water temp.

113mph @ 6,300 stb and 6270port with 35lbs water pressure and 45 gallons of fuel.

stock 15/34 cleavers bblades standard thickness with trailing edge work.


Next stop will be bblades for some 36's.

I believe that the boat will see over 118 again.



We will have to wait for the next update as I am taking the boat in for a re-rig and some updating on the interior.


Dan

Dan,

That is with 300xs, right?

Your boat really flys. The best mine has ever gone so far it 102.1 with 2 pob and 40 gallons of fuel. It consistantly runs right around 100 with 2-3 pob, 40-60 gal. Thats with 15x32 and I do not make the rpm you make. At this point, I am just enjoying the boat. I may do some more setup and dial-in work next spring.

Lots of tech specs, real world data at http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...=149139&page=8

07' 300xs I am told that most people are having touble finding the power with these motors. Certainly the low rpm's sucks.


I am very confident that my boat will see great speeds once I get the new props from brett.


set-up is everything. With the wrong heights and tow my boat will barely touch 100. You may have a balance issue remember the less running surface in the water the greater the speed. I would try additional set back. bolt on a 2.5" spacer and try that.


But hey 100 is still great.

Dan, what kind of slip % were you guys running when the boat was a SS race boat?

very low slip.

2:1 gear ratio 31's 112mph 8200 race set up

The doug wright slip goes way down when the boat gets over 105 plus. The hull design takes over.

also slip goes down with the higher rpm's.

Miccosukee Doug Wright
 

Anyone interested in purchasing this boat. It is the 2006 and 2007 SBI National Champion. Will sell as is race ready or convert to pleasure boat..........Let me know.

to dan lawrence ,
hi id love to talk to you about your boat im thinking of doing a similar thing any chance u could email me then i could call you ,my email is [email protected]

hi daren do you have any pics of the boat or could you email me at [email protected]

32
 

you guys let me know when your heading out agian. i just got our 32 doug wright running.
i'm down in ft myers
no offense to the skaters but the dw runs circles around them
i had a 32 b model with triples for pleasure and now run a dw 32 with inboards much better running boat

tell us more, you got pics????

when????????
 

you been posting about the doug wrights for quite a while.

stop typing and go and get one!!!!!!!!!!!!

with a 2 million dollar baby bill, it kinda throws a wrench in my plans... im working on it, just thought we be havin it built by now.....

thailand
 

sell that kid on the asian market. white kid might be worth a 38 dw??

There are pics posted in the SBI section
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...d.php?t=183883

That is an older 32'. I believe that is Dale Crighton's old 32 DW that was rigged at Grant's Custom Marine. This is the 38 from Biloxi. The only 38 built right now for Cate Lite.

rockin and rollin

Dale Creighton NEVER owned a 32' Doug Wright.....This boat belong to "SKATERDAVE" from this board.

Actually, that boat was built for Dale and then he changed his mind after it was built and had Doug build a 38'. Dale never actually took delivery of that boat but he had it built.

name??
 

that would be correct it was his third and i was bumped up from 4th to 3rd. i guess i should change my name from skaterdave to dougwright-dave???

I stand corrected. Your right...we had dePoo's 32' on Dale's trailer for alittle while.

I stand corrected as well. i knew the boat was originally built for Dale but did not know it had changed hands. Only going on what was told to me from good sources. I may make a few mistakes from time to time but I try to stay up on this stuff. If I could have a dollar for all the useless boating and boat racing info in my head I would own my own DW already.

Hey skaterdave hows that 32 running?

good
 

great, solid running boat thats handles great in the turns and stable down the straights!

which one do you own.. post pics....

actually these figures are real world figures. DPT Motorsports was onboard with me when this was done. i had between 60-80 gallons of fuel on board. it was in april of 06 in toms river NJ. was a 60 degree day with approx a 1ft chop and we actually ran outta water due to the end of the river. full of fuel 150-160 gallons and 2 people she ran 100-102 everyday all. previous best was 104 half full of fuel and 3 peeps on board in similar water.

yes i was also there for this.... that boat moved pretty good...

Clarification For Bern

My Skater does not want to run at all with anything over 60 gallons. I guess if I had a smaller set of props things would be a little different. The most fuel I have every run was 130-140 gallons which was full, the boat handled terrible. It did run right at 100 after about 2 miles but I eventually broke a prop shaft. 100-102 in a 30 Spectre with that much fuel and people is very, very good.

How do the DW's run with weight in the boat? How much fuel do you carry for a race?

i was running 15x32 3 blade labbed cleavers...cruisng at 80 mph i was spinning 49-5000 rpms...was everything was right i was tapping the limiters at 107

DW and props
 

Hi , after reading all the posts about DW, i see lots of u guys running 30s 32s etc 3 blade cleavers, i realised in xcats nobody uses them, i hear they are quick but to much vibration ,is this the true reason they dont use them ,fanx ?

Cooolii

I'd call Doug , get it right from the top!
His # is 321 795 6481

Cheers :)

Cooolaii