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Way to go....

Congrats! Welcome to the Formula family!
I have a 303 and I love it. (Was gonna sell it for a smaller single-engine boat, but decided to keep her)

Are you going to run lake Champlain with it? I always wanted to try that lake.

Best of luck to you.

Toolman (Dave)

Toolman-

Yes, I live a mile from Lake Champlain and can actually see my boat at the marina from my house. The 336 should be much a smoother ride than my 27 Fountain. I believe that it is the only 336 on the lake.

Hey Powerguy. Nice looking boat. I like the colors. I bought mine off of Champlain about 7 months ago up near Burlington from a guy named Dan St. Hilaire. Champlain is beautiful! Congratulations.

bford1-
I know your boat well an know all three owners. Peter Trono was the first owner, Dave Wulfson was the second and Dan was the third. The first two guys both had it for a while. Dan had it for 1 season. That boat screams for one so big. Were you able to tighten down the hull to reduce the flex in the boat?

Powerguy That's awesome. Small world. I didn't know the first two owners just Dan really. I haven't done anything to try to reduce the flex yet. Had you been in the boat and noticed the deck flex or was that from the previous thread? Right now I'm just getting things straigtened out. The carpet was trashed so I am pulling all of it out and recovering the seats below in grey vinyl. The shore power, water system and several little buttons, gauges, etc. are shot so that's my next project. I also ended up spending about $700 on one of the outdrives. The other was like new. All in all I was happy with the deal and expecting to put work into it for the price. And, yes, for a boat that big it really does fly.

Once I get that worked out my plan is to replace the rub rail with a white one and while doing that I've heard that you can really tighten them up by either thru bolting the hull to deck screws or remove the screws, epoxy them and replace and tighten them. A couple of people on OSO have said that makes a major differrence. I'm also going to remove that ugly wooden swim platform and go with a tubular unit from Extreme Marine. But, not until I get the other bugs worked out.

Do you also know Peter Pizzagalli (the guiy who built the engines)?

Brent Ford

Yes, I do. He is in Afghanistan right now. He builds a lot of performance motors in the Burlington area and has a great reputation. His big block motors are solid.

I have not been in your boat in 10+ years. A friend of mine rode in it last year and mentioned the flex. Sounds like you can make the repairs you mentioned and remove the flex.

Have fun .
Dave

I am hoping that will help remove some of the flex.

So, when you wer in it 10 years ago it wasn't that fast then right?

Those blowers and the engine rebuilds were supposedly done 1999. In 1995 Pizzagalli did some engine work but nothing major until 1999. At least that was the info I got from Peter and I did have a couple of receipts from him so I thought it was legit. I'd sure hate to think that those engine rebuilds are 10 years old. There are two engine hour gauges in the engine compartment (separate from the boat hour gauge) that read 81 hours. Plus the compression was good. Do you recall if the blowers were on it when you were in it that long ago? (It really doesn't matter at this point but I am curious.)

When I was on the boat it had stock 454's and was a real dog because of the weight. Dave Wulfson had Peter rebuild the motors and add the blowers. Peter is known for building strong blower motors. The late 90's sounds right for that. I didn't see Wulfson out in it much so I would believe the 81 hours on the blowers.
Regards,
Dave