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That's hurts top speed. I repaired that. All look decent now. I'll try it today and see if I get any more top.end. or better take off. I'm sure it was cavatating a little.

Runs much better now wth the cleaned up prop. I'll have to take a gps and. Speedo readings to be accurate. Cleaned the bilge, installed another speaker that was missing. Different radio. Works good. New stainless antenna mount. Other was old nylon. New 8 ft antenna and a small am FM white antenna. Worked on the scupper. It was green. Now it's brass. Same for platform. Nice n. Clean again. Fixed the seat from being loose. Floor is starting to go around that area. I used some aluminum plate and screwed the seat to that buried under the glass. It's tight now. Until o can get the floor up this winter .just the gas tank sender is giving me issues. It bounces or doesn't work. Have to keep it full.

Runs much better now wth the cleaned up prop. I'll have to take a gps and. Speedo readings to be accurate. Cleaned the bilge, installed another speaker that was missing. Different radio. Works good. New stainless antenna mount. Other was old nylon. New 8 ft antenna and a small am FM white antenna. Worked on the scupper. It was green. Now it's brass. Same for platform. Nice n. Clean again. Fixed the seat from being loose. Floor is starting to go around that area. I used some aluminum plate and screwed the seat to that buried under the glass. It's tight now. Until o can get the floor up this winter .just the gas tank sender is giving me issues. It bounces or doesn't work. Have to keep it full.

Where can I get that snoopy picture of him driving a Baron. Is that copywrited?

That boat ran 54 mph on radar with the factory Mercury LT1 280 horse with the Trs back in 1978. Mercury met us with props and a radar gun.Best they could get out of it was 54

The 260 horse Alpha drive radared at 58 the same day.

The transmission has a lot of parasitic drag and the trs drive adds hydrodynamic drag.

A lot of corrosion on your drive. Looks like the dock it sat at had bad electrolysis . Drain the fluid and make sure you don't have any leaks in it. I suggest power sanding it down and looking closely for penetrations.

I don't think so. Blow up the picture and find a art gifted teen.

Not the old LT1 motor there. Weird old exhaust also . Needs a big block with that drive and transmission

I would be interested in that heat exchanger and exhaust if you repower.

Ah ha. I knew something was amiss. Lol I know that drive is considered outdated nowadays. That's what I was thinking. A big block Chevy instead. Would the exhaust line up to the existing spots? I saw a 355 all alum engine small block brand new for sale for 2000.. I ran it today. Runs great actually. I really put it thru it paces today. This boat handles great and turns when you ask it too. Takes deep cuts turning. Caught my attention. Lol when the back of the boat looks below the waterline in a turn, you are.. out of the hole after that turn took all the juice out of it. That's where the big block comes into play. I've been working on the drive. It looked nasty but really, it's not as bad as it looked. The white crusty stuff made it look like it was destroyed. Flakes right off. All good aluminum. Gonna take a while to get it all off. I'm about half way with it. I'll change the fluid in the drive too. .

Installed a radio , added a small white FM antenna, a 8 ft antenna for the VHF, a horn and scrubbed the bilge till it was clean. Looks a lot better. It's a project for sure. But I don't mind. I love the boat. One day down the road, I'll change engines. Maybe this is good to learn how the boat acts in rough waves. I'm use to doing 60 plus on my Pro785 race ski. So to me, this is slow. Lol I can do 48 sleeping. . Call me when ya hit 60.