Skater repower project has begun
08-09-2017 | 02:06 PM
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08-09-2017 | 03:53 PM
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08-09-2017 | 08:51 PM
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Both motors are in and the drivelines completed, New fittings coming for the big strainers and ball valves. The bilge looks so uncluttered now.
The delay on the harnesses has the work moved to the dash and interior now. You can see it just a bit in the pic I snapped of the starboard motor today.
The delay on the harnesses has the work moved to the dash and interior now. You can see it just a bit in the pic I snapped of the starboard motor today.
Did you have to change the location of the motors? Forward ? Any weight difference between the swap?
08-09-2017 | 10:03 PM
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About 600lbs lighter is the estimate when it's all back together. The motors are going in the same location since we actually wanted the CG to be more forward. We will dial it in from that setup.
08-10-2017 | 08:43 AM
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Cash - you work fast man, or have the right people on the job. That would have taken me no less that 125 years to get motors in around here. I guess the resources down there are greater than up here in CLE region.
Awesome package, love the idea of usability and being realistic about how you use the boat and at what speeds. I should have taken a page out of your book and I would have been boating instead of fixing sh!t all the time with custom power.
Happy for you.
Awesome package, love the idea of usability and being realistic about how you use the boat and at what speeds. I should have taken a page out of your book and I would have been boating instead of fixing sh!t all the time with custom power.
Happy for you.
08-10-2017 | 09:38 AM
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I wouldn't say it was flighty. It's just that the boat was only 7k lbs with the big motors so it had a lot in the stern with the 6 drives. The CG was around the bilge wall and now should be in the cockpit somewhere.
08-10-2017 | 09:43 AM
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Cash - you work fast man, or have the right people on the job. That would have taken me no less that 125 years to get motors in around here. I guess the resources down there are greater than up here in CLE region.
Awesome package, love the idea of usability and being realistic about how you use the boat and at what speeds. I should have taken a page out of your book and I would have been boating instead of fixing sh!t all the time with custom power.
Happy for you.
Awesome package, love the idea of usability and being realistic about how you use the boat and at what speeds. I should have taken a page out of your book and I would have been boating instead of fixing sh!t all the time with custom power.
Happy for you.
Someone is on my boat every day, even if one day it was just to pull all 7 trailer tires so new ones could be mounted.
