Whats better in the rough Cat or Vee?
01-24-2007, 08:35 PM
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Re: Whats better in the rough Cat or Vee?
Also witnessed Yahoo put a whooping on the entire Super Cat fleet with an older boat in Daytona , until Curtis hurt his back and had to come off plane. As you can probally tell I admire my friend CM!
01-24-2007, 08:55 PM
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Daytona 2001 . So rough we barely got through the inlet. It was super rough that weekend. Boats would disappear behind the waves.
01-26-2007, 02:18 PM
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How can you respect my opinion if you don't even know who I am? 
My .02 cents worth.
By the early 90's, as several people already said, the 40 Skaters were pounding the 47 Apache's ( Best rough water v ever) in big water and everyone quit racing them because they couldn't keep up. Size for size the "good" cats will be faster if JT is driving. IMHO a 47 Apache/Saber will be more comfortable and a little safer if you don't have to go wide open because as someone said you don't need to be on top going wide open to go somewhere in the v like a cat. No middle speed for a cat in rough water and the faster you are going the more chance to make a mistake. This summer the new 47 Saber will have plenty of time to square off with Ruthless and we can see how they fair on a rough day in Lake Michigan. Comom summer. NK
My .02 cents worth.
By the early 90's, as several people already said, the 40 Skaters were pounding the 47 Apache's ( Best rough water v ever) in big water and everyone quit racing them because they couldn't keep up. Size for size the "good" cats will be faster if JT is driving. IMHO a 47 Apache/Saber will be more comfortable and a little safer if you don't have to go wide open because as someone said you don't need to be on top going wide open to go somewhere in the v like a cat. No middle speed for a cat in rough water and the faster you are going the more chance to make a mistake. This summer the new 47 Saber will have plenty of time to square off with Ruthless and we can see how they fair on a rough day in Lake Michigan. Comom summer. NK
01-26-2007, 02:21 PM
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01-26-2007, 02:46 PM
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Re: Whats better in the rough Cat or Vee?
How can you respect my opinion if you don't even know who I am?
My .02 cents worth.
By the early 90's, as several people already said, the 40 Skaters were pounding the 47 Apache's ( Best rough water v ever) in big water and everyone quit racing them because they couldn't keep up. Size for size the "good" cats will be faster if JT is driving. IMHO a 47 Apache/Saber will be more comfortable and a little safer if you don't have to go wide open because as someone said you don't need to be on top going wide open to go somewhere in the v like a cat. No middle speed for a cat in rough water and the faster you are going the more chance to make a mistake. This summer the new 47 Saber will have plenty of time to square off with Ruthless and we can see how they fair on a rough day in Lake Michigan. Comom summer. NK
My .02 cents worth.
By the early 90's, as several people already said, the 40 Skaters were pounding the 47 Apache's ( Best rough water v ever) in big water and everyone quit racing them because they couldn't keep up. Size for size the "good" cats will be faster if JT is driving. IMHO a 47 Apache/Saber will be more comfortable and a little safer if you don't have to go wide open because as someone said you don't need to be on top going wide open to go somewhere in the v like a cat. No middle speed for a cat in rough water and the faster you are going the more chance to make a mistake. This summer the new 47 Saber will have plenty of time to square off with Ruthless and we can see how they fair on a rough day in Lake Michigan. Comom summer. NK
This is the first thing I noticed in hitting the 8-10 foot
ocean swells.
65 we were getting pounded so bad that I could
barely hit the trim buttons on the dash.
85- 90 she was starting to pack The ride smoothed out.
I then noticed one of the engines was bouncing
on the limiter only to find out I smoked a tranny.
Wheres JT when ya need him.
01-26-2007, 02:59 PM
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Re: Whats better in the rough Cat or Vee?
IME (In my experience), running in "true" 8-10's, everyone's getting pounded (one way or the other), unless you're running parallel in the troughs ---- regardless of which boat!
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