Not many boats you're going to be zipping along in 5's+

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Love and Rockets,

If you befriend owners of the DW 360, perhaps you can get a ride sooner than the Miami Show?

also, Performance Boat Center has a dealer in South Florida. SpeedontheWater.com covered that news and the dealer.






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Never wait for a write up. Mine was done on Hotboat and total crap.It is all about the ad dollars. Do a test drive at LOTO on a busy weekend.

DW 360 has the best lines of any OB cat!

I have spent a lot of time in the DW360 and the boat is a 10. Myrick has run a best of 126 with one, it turns and handles incredibly as well. I am partial to Doug's boats-you might want to call Bob Teague or Myrick Coil direct and ask them what their personal opinions are (these are guys that have put boats to the extreme for decades and undersatnd build quality differences). I was blown away to hear Bobs quote in Miami last year after he went out and ran the DW36- Myrick has access and is involved with both boats on a daily basis.

Joe

You might want to look into a 47' Apache, or if you need outboards, a 53' Hydrasports CC.

I would venture to say that ALL of the boats on the market were not at the test. I'm betting DCB didn't bring every one of their sport cat lineup and smaller companies were probably not represented at all, for obvious reasons. Top speed isn't important since most of the time, the numbers are fantasy. But I'd like to know things like how does a 30wb Predator stack up against a 318 Skater, performance-wise. What's the build quality of a 32 Spectre compared to a DCB 31? I think the best LOOKING boat of all is the Pillini 34 so lets see what they all look like together. I get the "who is the fastest" thing but to me if I was going to cut a check for this kind of dough, I'd want to know the practical stuff.

From our deck on the 18MM we get a great view of the main channel and have the pleasure of seeing all of the boats out there running. The Wright Performance 36 always looks great whether it is snotty out or glass smooth. I also like the idea of the Wright Performance boats being rigged and painted at Performance Boat Center. The crew there does a hell of a job.

Honestly, another cat that looks pretty impressive on the water is the new Fountain 32 Thundercat. Being 4' shorter than the Wright Performance, it is not going to give the ride, but it is a pretty damn good looking cat. I think that Ed at Big Thunder Marine (LOTO) knows as much about these as anybody. I also believe that the new Fountain comes in at a pretty good price point.

As Noli says, a trip to LOTO (fly into St Louis) is a cheap way to really get to experience not only the new MTI, Wright Performance, and Fountain, but also allot of late model used cats.

Good luck!

Two of my good friends own each boat and they love them! My friend with the MTI has had multiple cats and v bottoms in his life and is absolutely thrilled with his MTI 340. My friend with the DW 360 is into his first cat after several v bottom boats and totally loves his boat. Both run extremely well in all conditions and both seem to run almost identical top ends. The MTI is running a little more prop and the DW could go up one but then he would loose some acceleration. So that said the DW would probably be faster propped the same. Both boats pop on plane with no effort at all and run amazing on normal chop and moderate seas. The DW sits much taller in the water than the MTI and has an overall bigger look but interior wise and running wise feel the same. Honestly, you will need to try them all and see which one you like. Both my friends tried each and one went MTI and the other DW. If you are looking for the biggest boat for rough water, your best bet would probably be the Mystic 38 as that is the same hull as a 44 cut down and is quite a bit larger than the the others.

Try the ones you like and best of luck!

I've been trying to ignore this thread, but here goes:

1. We tested seven boats including a DCB M33 and a Pilini 34. Others were invited and the event was well publicized and open to any builder who expressed interest. Nordic, for example, tried to get a boat there but couldn't. We invited Screaming Eagle (now Spectre Powerboats per the speedonthewater.com story earlier this week). Though most of the companies that brought boats to our roundup are advertisers, our roundup was not limited to them. Any implication otherwise is incorrect.

2. Top speed was one of the many pieces of performance data we gathered. As we've said countless times, top speed is not the only, much less the most important, measure of performance. Also as we've said many times before, all of the boats in the class take a lot of time—and a lot of water—to achieve their top speed.

3. We brought three professional drivers: Bob Teague, Grant Bruggemann and Shaun Torrente and worked in three different teams with each team running every boat through the same set of test protocols and evaluations. We think they are imminently qualified for their jobs. For the record, beyond performance metrics, we did in fact gather lots of "practical stuff." (I like that term.)

4. We are not picking a winner. We will present our evaluations of what we observed, from performance to workmanship, on the day we tested all the boats. We will present our objective and subjective observations, but you, the readers, get to make your own determinations. If they're based on our findings, great. If not, great.

5. The roundup will run in the Sept/Oct issue of Speed On The Water digital magazine.

I think that about covers it. Carry on, gentlemen.

P.S. Forgot to mention: Love the enthusiasm and interest. Thank you.