Looking for a 26 Performance Boat.. Velocity or Baja

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02-01-2009 | 04:15 PM

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Tampa38

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Originally Posted by mikes280

as said you neeed to compair a 280 velocity to a 26 baja. i thank you will find the cabin bigger in the velocity and it is a deeper boat. now for rough water well i have yet to see a baja that can keep up with me in rough water, not sure if it cause of the speed difference or they are no better in the rough. power for power the velocity will be faster and get better fuel milage. funny story i have a friend with a 28 pantera with big power, we were at a poker run with my brothers 280 velocity with big power... well the guy with the pantera told my bro he would go by him in the rough. So it gets rough and my bro just leaves the guy when we got back he said man it was just to rough to run fast so i am not sure how bad a velocity is in the rough but it sure went by that pantera.

I had no problems in the rough with my 280, you just have to get back on the throttle right as you land after a launch.

Lake St Clair get pretty nasty, running 70+ was never an issue in any water, and the boat seemed to right itself automatically on landings.

We definitely suprised a lot of bigger boats, and blew away a 35 Donzi with triple outboards in 3-4 footers, we literally were letting him catch up then waving bye-bye as we hit the throttle.

I drove the Donzi a week later and it was definitely slower.

T38

02-02-2009 | 10:29 AM

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Quent

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From: Loudon, TN

26' Boat

David, look at the boats in classified here on OSO under Lavey Craft. I have a 24 Nu Era (25' 8") that I'm thinking of selling. 710 Ilmor and all the stuff you would ever want. Let me know if you are interested.

I run on two lakes here in Tennessee with plenty of big cruisers. No problems at all. If you have a October 07 issue of Hot Boat there is a write up on my rig. Best of luck. Quent