Maiden Voyage in Hawk 40
 

Well, 3 1/2 yrs after deciding to rebuild 2 454's and refit the interior, I launched a completely different boat. As you may have read, this project was never meant to go this far, but it did and it is awesome. The boat ran this weekend without any serious issues. We started with a fresh transom, raised the X dimension, moved the engines close, switched to bravos, dumped at least 1000lbs, and added 500hp. The boat was really impressive.
The Report: The drives we are running came off a 32 Skater and have a 1.2x ? ratio in them, so were tried to run 26" 4 blades. The boat came onto plane really easy and pulled much harder than expected. The engines would only turn 4200-4400 rpms, which felt faster than the boat was ever before. Even being so over prop'ed the boat still had nice acceleration. The drives are having 1.5:1 ratios installed and we will try again. I think that will really wake the boat up and I am expecting 80+ - mph.

Zanie, i hope you see this and it helps your consience about your X dimension and extension boxes.

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looks great...can't beat all white! How about some interior shots.

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As I look a little closer I see its not in yet. Did you use Imron?

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Too Cool!

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No interior yet. Still debating on what color and making sure that there is nothing left to do before we install it.
The paint is the one part of the boat that I left up to someone else. I dropped it off with rainbow stripes and picked it up solid white. I dont know what he used to be honest.:crazy:

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Keep it all white. Interior, paint, gauges, everything!

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The gauges have yellow, panels are silver, engines are purple...you can look in my link. The interior will probably be yellow with a white pirelli floor. That is unless my Tan interior idea goes through.

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Awesome boat! I've been following your project all along and it's turning out great.

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wow awsome!!

I saw a 40' hawk that had been painted and had bravos over the weekend for sale at the VA Beach boat show.

Just makes me want to go and take a harder look at it now.

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Hey,
I emailed Fountain Powerboats regarding my "X"dimension and extension boxes. After all Reggie designed the bottom that is on my boat (1984 Excalibur 31).
Martin Sanborn from Fountain was nice enough to reply. He said I could probably move my "x" up a little more than the 18.5 that I was planning, but not more than another inch. I'll probably go 19 inches on my "X", any higher than that and my exhaust would probably hit my hatch.
On my Excalibur since it has the pad bottom and notched transom, he recommended that I dont use stand off boxes due to the fact they usually don't see that much of a performance increase on Fountains WITH a Notched Transom.
I realize your boat does not have a notched transom and if I had your boat I would have added boxes too.

Between your results and what he told me, I'm allot more excited, and allot less worried.

Glad to see that you were able to get in the water! please bring your hand held GPS when you get the other drives on, and post results.

I should have some pictures worth posting in a few weeks.
Regards,
Dan

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Zanie, My Hawk 40' IS one of the few with a notched transom. Either way, it looks really cool and ran great.

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Looks great, looking foward to the final pictures with the interior in.

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How did or who did the fairing on your boat?....I sure would like to change my Hawk's winsheild into a fairing....got any pic's of that process?....Fred

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Fred, there is a machinist/fabricator in Sarasota that used to make a lot of the parts for Wellcraft. He is a good friend and made the faring about 7 years ago for us. I will see if i can get ahold of him to see if he has specs or blueprints of some kind.

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Thanks, I would be interested in any info you may find, Thanks, Fred

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any updates on this project?

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Yes, it is done. Finally got it to the water July 4th weekend.

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Matt,
I was curious what your input, and possibly Hawk40's input on repainting my rig. Both of your rigs really look great. Now that the engines are done, I am thinking of repainting the just the top side (white), and leaving the red hull and sides as is, I will compound wax and clean the sides up, for budget reasons. When I paint the deck white, should I also paint the faring white, or tint it dark black, I am going to leave the dash original, what do you guys think? Later I plan on going all red on the interior, and set it up to a more modern style.