Trying to figure out how light I can keep mine. There is nothing in the cabin, i removed even the radio compartment, the bathroom or at least I think it was, etc. I'm trying to think of everything I can leave out to save weight. Using bam's calculator I found the constant for joes boat at 8800 lbs and applied it at 8200 lbs and 1600 total hp, says 94 mph hope that's close!

That was right were I was running with a standard cabin layout , carrying just under 9000# and then my bravo's started to explode.

Make the power, prop it correctly, get the drives up where they need to be, and you'll have no problem at all breaking 90.

It will be interesting to see what it weighs in at once completed.

Question, are the hatches fairly light, or is there a good opportunity to shave some weight there?

Haven't seen the hatches in person yet. Getting race hatches from a guy when he comes out to pick up his trailer

FWIW, my 1990 38, with #4's, and my 1997 dually, weighed 19,500, with no fuel in the boat on a cat scale. I then weighed the truck empty, truck was right at 7000lbs. Myco says my 1989 MTR36 trailer to weight 2700LBS. so, 19,500-7000-2700=9800lbs for the boat with no fuel. Boat had maybe 1/8 tank when I weighed it, and pretty empty for coming out of storage. So, summer, full tanks of fuel at 220 gallons, a few people on boat, some coolers, I'd say 11,000+ all day for just the boat. I wish it weighed 8500-9000 lbs.

Damn! That's a 1000 more than I thought! Time to get rid of unessacary things like, passanger seats, registration stickers, cleats, ropes, life jackets, fire extinguishers, all safety items, non alcohol beverages, and I guess all the bikini bottoms in the vee birth.

For comparison, my old Top Gun weighed 11,300 lbs with a 1/4 tank. - I weighed the entire truck/trailer boat, splashed the boat and the re-weighed the truck & trailer to get this figure.