I've got another metal guard blank I'm going to strip of decals, take it to Syracuse to get it forward facing louvered the full length of the top.

The red ripper has been fully restored
and the boat is spotless and ready to run...

waiting on some real weather
60*'s and rainy on/off for the next week.

Dave got your VM.
I sold those 28's last year.

Thanks. A friend of mine wanted to try them on his 28' Warlock with 377 Scorpions.

Dave

Well three weekends in a row and it ain't even Memorial Day yet! Tried out some 5b Maximus props on saturday, not so good, these things plain sucked. But then that's the way the whole day was going, the significant other dropped the truck, and all my other important, keys in the St Lawrence River. Maybe at the launch dock, maybe somewhere else as she was bringing in the fenders and such, half an hour into a cruise she says to me "You do have the truck keys?", sort of went downhill from there. In that she was the last one to have them . Hard to explain why they put zippers on them pockets, oh well, it is good to have a little brother with a Chevy dealership, couple hours later we had truck keys. Now if I can just remember what the other dozen or so went to I'll be all set.

Now this was saturday, such as it was.

Sunday all is well with the key deal. Still trying to remember what the he11 was on the key ring, but it will come with time. So it's off to try the second set of 5 blades that Brett at BBlades sent. The Maxes sucked but I have high hopes for these "Experimental" ones he wants me to give a spin. So we hook her up and head off for the River on a wonderful day in the north country. Well a half a mile down the road something does not seem quite right, and in my mind I say to myself "Self, what the fock is not quite right here?". Well boys and girls you tell me.

If I'm seeing that right, looks like a cracked wheel. If so, how strange is that???? Never saw such a thing before. Maybe I'm just seeing something that isn't there though.

Sucks about the keys. You'll find out what was on that ring at just the wrong moment,,,,,,,,,,,,,, like when you need that certain key!!

So, what does "sucked" mean regarding the the Maximus? Too much, too little?

Very observant Bird, you're warm, but not quite there yet. I'll give you a clue here, call upon your depth perception skills to solve the mystery. I have more pics, but I'd hate to spoil the fun of Stump The Bird.

As it turns out the keys were the least of the Trailer Boating Sucks Weekend issues.

Now "sucks'' in propeller terms ranges from breaking loose and vibrating comming on plane, to so much tail lift at speed that the boat like it was on ice with bald tires and would go into a cat like tail hop on the high end. The loose didn't bother me, old Velocity guy here, and the hop could be dialed out with the tabs. Top speed very was close to the Bravos for the glass calm water. The only plus I can see so far is the 3500 rpm cruise was at 60 mph, up from 54 with the Bravos. These were standard issue Maxes, maybe lab versions would be different, a phone discussion today will tell me that. Most running these on this hull rave about the on plane and hooked up handling over the Bravos, I'm just not seeing it. I've checked the CL and X dimensions and they are spot on to what Fountain says they are. Just don't understand this, unless I just ended up with a poor pair.

It looks like a crack in the wheel or is it grease out of the wheel bearing? I notice that the bearing buddy cap is missing? Did the axle shift too? Sorry to hear about the issues. NG on the props....Maybe back to the bravos.

Dave

Ragged,

Try Chris at Sterndrive Specialists, he runs the 5's on the profile, ran like crap stock, labbed gained mid and top both!

Hey Ragged,

I know what I am getting you for Xmas .....

A key chain with a floater on it a (Formula one of coarse).

LOL ..... LOL .......

See what this early boating has done to you, it has accelerated your alzheimers with regards to you loosing your mind trying to find those keys.
Wasn't it your "trailer guy" who owns performance trailers or was it your "Boat guy" who recommended Performance Trailers.
Man did they ever look after you .....
Of coarse if you would have spent a little more money on the trailer you could of bought a big boy trailer with three axles.

Once again I am just kidding ...... I just spent over 2k from my last trailer episode.

Where you able to get home with the trailer like that?

Jeff