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Great choice. That engine and equipment package is VERY reliable.

Enjoy.

Jim

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Looks like a nice ride, Doc.

Only wish you had looked at my 94 Formula 303 first!
Twin 415 HP 502 EFI's, 72+ on GPS. UNDER $60K!
Powerquest makes a nice boat, too. Good luck with it.

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Nice ride, I love those 29's that is some great Performance out of that Hemi pulling that boat??

Where did you find it at?? Local DET area??

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Congrats . now we get to see some picks from the water again :drink:

What about those tye downs ? :eek: :eek:

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Mike, looks GOOD. Glad to see you in another PQ. Enjoy :)

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I know, I had thought it had tie downs when I first looked at it, so I didn't bother to bring any. When I went to pick it up I had a serious "doh!" moment.

First thing on the shopping list!

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YOU STROKER, I am glad you finally got a boat, enjoy. Give me a call when you plan on painting it, I can help you with the graphics. :p :D Jeff

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Congrats DRocker!!!!

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Yea Baby! what Bill said!

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Nice choice. Congrats! I am sure you are comfortable being back into another PQ.
They DO make a nice boat.

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Thanks all - the boat really met all of our criteria almost perfectly. Twins, reliable stock power, windshield for those fine Michigan boating days (52 today! :rolleyes: ), small enough to tow behind the Durango and big enough to ride well.

I'm really surprised at how big it is compared to our old 280. Seems like the deck is taller as well as the boat being almost 2' longer - lots of headroom below.

Can't wait to get out and see how she runs on our local waters, but since this is Michigan it could fricking snow again this week. :mad:

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One thing about the 290 boats without hydraulic steering, there tends to be enough sideways movement in the drives to produce high speed oscillations, quite often mistaken for chine walk.
Barb's brother-in-law had a 290 with 330's (owned by summerfliesby in Hammond now) and they are very nice boats. A friend of Dyno's has one here too. JiimyV on the board I think.

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I have a lot of seat time in the 290... buddy has one that actually looks just like your Dock... where did you get it? Maybe Tony sold his and didnt' tell me?? Anyway, with the stock power those boats are perfect. With any more power they get to be a real handful. We could get 63-65 out of Tony's any day of the week, stock 330's.

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Congratulations Dock. It's been a long time comin. :cool:

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Nice ride!!!! Hope to see you on LSC!!!
Just look for the blue hull white deck 29 Mirage

Fish

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Congrats on the new boat !!!

You can have my dock Saturday nite after Smoke !

JM

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That would ROCK! Let me know if there is anything I need to do on that deal, I'd love to be able to tie up there - maybe my little family boat could learn a trick or two from all of that serious hardware :D

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Congrats Mike. You might be right about the end of the world thing... I was out at lunch today, my truck outside temp showed 51 degrees, and it started snowing. I think you've messed with the balance of nature...

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nice find good looking boat

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Dave, funny you should mention that. The gimbals are nice and tight on this boat, and it has a Latham tie bar, but... it's also got these "shock absorber" deals mounted between the drives. I don't have a good picture of it (try tonight) but it looks almost exactly like a hydraulic steering system mounted between the drives, except instead of rams it has essentially shock absorbers. I've never seen anything like it (but that is where I'd like to put a nice Marine Machine or similar system....)

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Believe me, the hydraulic steering would be worth the money and you can probably sell the wife on it by saying it's a safety item. And it is.
SuperV (Wade) had it put on his 28 Challenger and would probably be happy to give you his opinion if you called him.

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Those are probably Drew Marine Steering Stabilizers. I have one on my boat and it sure took a lot of the play out of my boat at higher speeds.

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Hi Mike. I'm home today. Seems I had a reaction to one of my meds. Who'da thunk?