Ohio River in the Cincinnati area
 

Any of you Formula owners boat around the Cincinnati area on the river. Am looking to
put together a trip this summer up or down river, say Louisville or W.V.. We, wife,
and I, like to run our 312 in the 50,60,70 MPH area .
Thoughts anyone? :)

Hook up with the Tri State Powerboat Association. They have a bunch of runs planned.

Hey Mack 312, welcome to the board. Did you buy the Poker Run edition done @ Haynes? If so, I saw you out last summer.

Dano,

Good idea. Do they have a URL?
Also, just looking for a few boats that like to run for a long weekend.

Kentz,
Thanks, what a great site. It will help get me through till May 1. Yep, you got me, that my 312. Just got the props back from Merc today. Labing cost a bit of cash, we will see if it works! :eek:

Beautiful boat. I happen to live up here by Haynes and remember stopping in from time to time while he painted yours. Funny, I just spoke with John York today and am having him lab a pair for me. Going to keep my originals stock, you can't trust that river. :D

We could do Louisville for lunch and be back in time for dinner :D

Kentz,
Thank you, we real love the paint. I have a pair of 28's to get the 312 out of the hole with 5 or 6 people in it, and the 30's that were labed for just the speed runs with 2 of us on board and a sniff of fuel. Merc said that the 30's should give me 2 to 3 MPH. I have the base line from last year on the GPS so we will see.
By the way, what are you flying on the river?

Wow - I'm running 28's. Don't think I could pull 30's. I thought you had 330's or mags in that boat?

34 Powerquest - check your e-mail

Kentz,
Yes, I have 454 Mag EFI's 385hp ea. Tuff to pull the 30's with a full load but the single step helps. I shure do need the tabs but that's what came on her from Formula. Merc says the thiner blades will help a little.

Got you E-Mail but also got a [Unable to display image] so no pix! Give it another try I would like to see it.

Yeah, sorry. I'll shoot you a pic from the office tomorrow. Thier on my hardrive and it never works from here, Just a j-peg. file :confused:

No problem. You buy lunch in Louisville, and I'll get dock space at the Waterfront and buy dinner. :)

mack312 what drive ratio are you running I have same motors in a 303 with 1.5 ratio and 27 pitch 3 blade props. I was going to go to 26 bravos because I thought 28 pitch would be too but now you have me wondering. :confused:

S.F.,
1.5 as well. Let me clear this up a little. Formula sent it to me with 30's on it. Is a bit of a pig getting out of the hole but with the 3 of us in it does ok. Get 6 people in it of 4 my size 200+ and I put the 28's on. Once I get the boat over it will take the 30's to 4900 RPM. That's y they went to merc to get the lab work done. Want to see it I can get 5000, 5100 out of them. I think the rev limiter is 5050 ish?
These are Bravo 1 blades. Does the step on the 312 make that much dif?

PS the 28 scream out of the hole!!! :eek:

Sorry should say 4 blades

Mack, the Fastech step bottoms make a whale of a difference. I'm sure the newer hulls are lighter than my old tug, also. I have an 89 311 w/454 carbed mags @ 365hp with 1.5 Bravos and I'm doing good to pull 23p Bravo 3 blades. The boat will jump on plane, though - tabs or not. I couldn't even think of running anything higher than a 25p on my rig. I'm at 64.9 GPS @ 4900 - 5000 with me and a buddy (each around 200lbs) and probably 3/4 tank of fuel. I've resigned myself to the fact that it's going to take some engine work to get me into the mid 70's (and then I still won't be satisfied! :D :D :D). Sounds like you got yourself a nice rig.

http://www.tspba.homestead.com/
this is the tr-istate powerboat association's web site

Croozin2. Thanks! We love the rig. Just got the 30's back from Merc and some lab work. Can't wait for May 1!

On gps without the Lab props we were at 76.8. Another OSO member "Birdog" was on the boat as a witness. He and I are going to empty out everything from the boat, only have a sniff of fuel, and see if we can get to the 80 number WITHOUT doing anything to the motors! Wish me lick! Praying for spring! :cool: