team mountain dew boat
 

anyone know what happened to the mountain dew race boat it was a 27 progression with the race hatch on yellow and white

wasn't it raced by Jim Arvis and Justin ? in the 90's
 

Wasn't it raced by Jim Arvis and Justin ? in the 90's....Justin runs a boat repair shop near me.

yes i think it was was wondering if the boat was still in the area

Is it the same boat as "Team Progression"?

That was FS somewhere in NJ (Jackson?) last yr.

The boat had some delamination and Jim sold it some Guy in Maryland (I think) But Jim cleary told him Not To Race it because it would come apart, for a pleasure boat it would be fine. Well I guess the guy raced it at Point Pleasant or Ocean city and it totally came apart. This is Not the same boat as the Blue & White "Team Progression" Of Scott Hodem. His Had some Bad delam also...

the blue and white one is in brick at a body shop it is a mess big crack in it thanks for the help on the yellow and white one they look nice with the race hatch on them

Yo Bruce, what's up? If you were chaning props on the Activator what would you go with to get more top end? Im gettin to about 6200 with those 26's that came with the boat.. By the way, your Excalibur looks great.

Randy

At the 1997 Biloxi Worlds there was a Progression which ran in Factory 1. (I thought it was green??) The boat had not qualified to run, as was the case with several others, but was allowed to participate in the race anyway as an exhibition boat. For the Saturday race the Progression Team removed the weight it was required to carry. We were running third in our Sutphen when late in the race that Progression went by us like we were tied to the dock - 5mph+ easy. Only about 6" of that boat was in the water and it was flying. We thought it was the "A" boat when it first blew by. At the crane later we asked their crew if they had taken the weight out of the boat and they swore "No". Needless to say we called
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Regardless, to this day I remember the attitude on the thing - beautiful, looked like a Hydrostream.

I Remember back in 94-95 there was a Velocity called "Pure Energy" one race they smoked all the other A Class boats and about 500' from the finish made it look like they broke down, they knew they have to explain the extra pep of an Illegal motor...

that picture was from Baltimore when Arvis still owned it.

Boat is still in Richmond I think, OUI on the board has it, last raced in Orange Beach Worlds, it was always that color (yellow) the Team Progresson Boat was Scott Hodom's boat out of the Point Pleasent area, it started out as an "A" boat then converted to F1, thoes were the days.

top rpm for those motors is 6450 i believe, u may want to try a pair of hydromotives 25 that are cut like bravos what speed are u gettin.the props u have i had the diameter cut to 14 3/4 u may want to try the stock diameter and raise the motors bruce

I owned the black Velocity "Pure Energy" and it was a legal A boat for every race. We were inspected after we smoked all the boats in our class and the first Factory 2 boat, Team Velocity, at Little Lake Toho and passed with no problem. The only boats faster than us were the new canopy boats, Baby and the yellow Bat Boat. Clay

I was wondering when you were going to respond! How are you Clay? I still have old Freeze Frame tapes with you guys running that little black boat. Jacksonville 1995 seems to ring a bell.

Mike:

Can you tell me anything about Jax 1995? I have just moved here and would like to hear anything you know about that race.

Randy Taylor

Hey Mike, Jacksonville '95 was the best time I have ever had in a raceboat. After getting pinched out of the starting line by Hog's Breath and Archer Marine, it took us a couple of miles but we showed them all what we had! Bob Bull told me later he could not believe how fast we went by him. The Freeze Frame vid of the start, I think there were 26 of us, says it all! Clay