i am still waiting to hear about your experience with the triple 42. since i own one i would like to hear your thoughts...Formula guy

thanks formula guy

My buddy with the 42 has triple Merc 525SC's. Not sure of the yr, other than it does have a step. He runs right at 93.

I have a 32 and I put on a lighter engine hatch. It was mad out of a material called (I think) deculite. It weighs about 1/3 rd of the original hatch. It will help.

I was thinkin about that engine-hatch solution. For whatever reason, the engine-hatch on a 32 is ungodly heavy.
I was also thinking of fabbing a hatch/sunpad that would be more flat/level at idle speed. I don't like the slope of the sunpad while moored, or at headway speed. I wonder if a slightly positively-angled hatch/sunpad would affect top-end performance.
Combined with lighter manifolds, a lightweight hatch COULD make a difference.

It's actually DecoLite.

Where did you get those polished steering brackets on the back of the Bravo drives? That looks awesome.

they appear to be "Latham"

Your not alone.......I take the batteries out over the winter so I disconnect the lift ram........If your not REAL careful that hatch could come down and literally kill you......its freakin' HEAVY!!!

I think they are built so heavy and strong so like 5 people could stand on it and not break.......

Roger...any pics of that hatch?????.....how did it hold up???

Yep, they are Lathems. Fountain used lathem at one time, then went to a different product mid to late 90's.
The boat originally had the ones that Fountain installed, the black painted ones, and I didn't like them. The paint was flaking off, and they are just a rough, porus casting covered with thick paint. Not a high quaality produc .So it would have taken forever to clean up for polishing. The lathems are already polished, so was just easier to buy them. And I'm all about the shine!