Originally Posted by Smarty (Post 4849148)

Tell me more about the likes and dislikes of the Mystic you owned, I have always thought, based on observation not firsthand experience, that the Mystic cat with turbine power is truly "top of the food chain". I am not a viable prospect to purchase a 50' Mystic cat with turbine power (pleasure boat), but I do have goals.....and I like learning firsthand from people who have been there and done that.

Originally Posted by seafordguy (Post 4849054)

This thread brought some perspectives I was not aware of and would like to hear more on since a turbine cat would be a (lottery driven) dream of mine....

Salt water - could see an issue if they digest salt water, but can't imagine an issue just operating in salt water locales? Thought I had read of flush kits on some boats??
Didn't know that they were totally uninsurable. I know insurance on ALL big cats is hard to come by, but completely unattainable?
Didn't know they had a propensity to burn down? Is this isolated to a few high profile incidents?

Fuel burn doesn't seem an issue to me. If you own a turbine cat the difference in burning 5000 or 10000 in fuel each summer is nominal and offset by the extended rebuild time-frames - thousands of hours instead of hundreds.

I've never seen one but always wondered more about the noise in a pleasure boat.

Originally Posted by RyW (Post 4849735)

As to the noise, a majority of the noise in a turbine is the intake noise, that's the reason we put the intakes in the front of the 50 statement turbine boats, its really brings the noise level down in the cockpit.
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Originally Posted by 302Sport (Post 4849672)

To me the 50 Mystics with turbines are like the P51''s that run unlimited gold at Reno, they're definitely top of the food chain, and not produced anymore. Low Altitude would run every day in the 190's and wanted to cruise at 160-170 with 4 people, full tanks and standard props. Not many other pleasure boats out there that will consistently put that number down on any given Saturday afternoon. The boat runs so level at those speeds, it's incredible and not a lot of people know this, but the 50 Mystic was really the first cat designed from the ground up to run upwards of 200mph. The ONE downfall of the Mystic vs a 46 Skater is when it gets very, very rough like Vortex vs Monster in Trinidad in 2015. Other than that, the Mystic is unbeatable.....


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Originally Posted by Nate5.0 (Post 4849751)

while it brought the noise down, it is far from quiet..

https://youtu.be/Bug60ffrnU0

Originally Posted by Nate5.0 (Post 4849751)

while it brought the noise down, it is far from quiet..

https://youtu.be/Bug60ffrnU0

Originally Posted by RyW (Post 4849779)

well you can hear everyone in the cockpit fine, more than you can say about big blocks making the 1800hp plus that those are.