40 Hawk in MO
07-20-2010, 04:28 PM
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Big item's on the drives. TRS Drive good for around 425 H.P. to maybe 650 H.P. if you baby it. Boat weight and prop pitch big factor on the life of drive. The Speedmaster # 3, had lower skeg shorter and sweptback with bullet nose, bigger shafts, and bearings. Much stronger and streamlined, I think they rated them at 750 H.P. List price new as a option on Hawk was around $ 8,000.00 to $ 10,000.00 or so over standard TRS Drive. The trick option I think was Kevlar Hull for $ 8,200.00, think they built 5 to 10 boats that way have never seen a used one surface. TxHawk has a trick Hawk and a bunch of Hawk 40's around his area.
07-26-2010, 07:38 PM
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07-27-2010, 08:39 AM
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http://community.webshots.com/album/578261076xxOofL
Checked out this Hawk last weekend. Was surprised how original the interior looked. 28 years had an effect on it, but it looked better than what I expected. All the teak looked complete and in pretty good shape too, for anyone that would be interested in keeping it.
The hull looked like Ray Charles gave docking lessons with it. Definitely plenty of dock rash, but just cosmetic stuff from what I could tell.
I hopped on a drive and my friend said it looked like there was some transom flex. Probably a good opportunity to have TxHawk put that new Bravo transom in for someone.
Overall, the boat looked original and unrestored. I'm sure it'll need TLC from someone that appreciates the old Excaliburs. I'm curious how solid the hull is.
Anyway, there's a brief overview for anyone interested.
Checked out this Hawk last weekend. Was surprised how original the interior looked. 28 years had an effect on it, but it looked better than what I expected. All the teak looked complete and in pretty good shape too, for anyone that would be interested in keeping it.
The hull looked like Ray Charles gave docking lessons with it. Definitely plenty of dock rash, but just cosmetic stuff from what I could tell.
I hopped on a drive and my friend said it looked like there was some transom flex. Probably a good opportunity to have TxHawk put that new Bravo transom in for someone.
Overall, the boat looked original and unrestored. I'm sure it'll need TLC from someone that appreciates the old Excaliburs. I'm curious how solid the hull is.
Anyway, there's a brief overview for anyone interested.
Last edited by Keytime; 07-28-2010 at 06:53 AM.
07-30-2010, 09:47 PM
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Surprised there's no comments out there on this one.
I'm not shopping, personally, but for the sake of discussion, think it's worth $30k w/o a trailer? How about with/without a rotten transom? (I don't know if it is or not.)
I'm not shopping, personally, but for the sake of discussion, think it's worth $30k w/o a trailer? How about with/without a rotten transom? (I don't know if it is or not.)
Last edited by Keytime; 07-31-2010 at 09:16 AM.
07-31-2010, 06:43 AM
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I think it's worth the money. Sure it could be bought few thousand less than asking. But my thoughts would be spend $ 20,000.00 more and buy the TxHawk 40 Hawk and be in the water boating as fast as can count the money, and no work. Jon
07-31-2010, 09:18 AM
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I completely agree with that statement. Plus, you're on a trailer, so you're only really spending more like $10k-$15k more for TxHawk's boat. Pretty crazy when ya think about it.
