Are cats really that dangerous?
05-06-2008 | 10:23 PM
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05-06-2008 | 10:27 PM
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05-07-2008 | 05:22 AM
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Boy that's different than I was quoted. A 26 daytona with a 496ho is about an 80 MPH boat, and it was between 3 and 4K plus the tres course.
Never even came close to $1000 on my 28 pantera that ran close to that. 30 years of boating, never a claim, married with children, 760 credit scores, last speeding ticket was 15 years ago.
You must have a source other than Merkel.
Never even came close to $1000 on my 28 pantera that ran close to that. 30 years of boating, never a claim, married with children, 760 credit scores, last speeding ticket was 15 years ago.
You must have a source other than Merkel.
05-07-2008 | 01:29 PM
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A 30' Shadow/ Chris Cat would run with a 36' Cigarette in any conditions that were legal to race in, and I would imagine that a high deck 30 or 32 foot Skater would do the same. A 40' naturally aspirated, Skater got the best of a 46' triple supercharged engined, Apache in the Ocean city race mentioned earlier. ( a race in which the Coast Guard almost closed the inlet because it was so rough)
So yes size does matter...in reverse...but , of course neither of these cat designs were from the Left Coast.
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So yes size does matter...in reverse...but , of course neither of these cat designs were from the Left Coast.
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05-07-2008 | 02:32 PM
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Cats slap up to about 40 or 50 mph, which while fast for a vee, is a "transition speed for cats
05-07-2008 | 02:36 PM
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1. Hering CNC's prop technology...... significant.
2. Beaks............insignificant
3. Bling............. ditto
4. Misplaced Bravado.....ditto
5. The internet..............
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05-07-2008 | 02:40 PM
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certainly not an Apache......... and I love Apaches.
Bottom line watch all of the big water offshore races after 1981....... cats have dominated.
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The race in your video was flat calm.....very high trim, high rake speed props, and one hull "spilled air" under the other.
05-07-2008 | 02:49 PM
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P.S. with identical aluminum Eickhert engines the cat was 36 mph faster
Maxon 30' Chris Cat.....Open class 1985-86.......... against various Cigarettes............. and Apaches.
Various modified Chris cats and Shadows..... versus Wild Turkey 36' Modified Cigarette.
etc, etc, etc,
Nice try.......... Wrong debate
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05-07-2008 | 03:21 PM
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