Ok so back to the performance topic and not costs… what’s also interesting is the Stock V boats are much closer to the big 450 OB cats as they are running damn near identical lap times to Super Stock. The other big glaring thing is the consistency in lap times. The top 2 in Super Cat only have best to worst lap difference of like 18 seconds. Where in 450 class it’s like 25-30 seconds.

For the amount of hours you put on your cat, the outboards are the only way to go! You would've rebuilt the top ends on 700s already (200 hour intervals), complete rebuilds on 1100s (200 hour intervals) and rebuilt 1350s 3 times (100 hour intervals) by now (at almost $200k per rebuild). Not to mention you would've spent at least twice as much on fuel in those 300 hours. My 700 rig gets .8 - 1.0 mpg, and my 30 got right around 2.0 mpg when it had the 400Rs on it.

I did not go to KW, I live out on the Left Coast (California). I have quite a few friends back there though that are texting me what's going on.

No doubt that there's a lot of interesting information in the lap sheets. I was even surprised at how much faster the Class 1 boats were than Super Cat. Crazy what a difference 10' in boat length and almost double the power makes! Those twin turbo 1100 Mercs make about twice the torque of what a single carb Super Cat motor puts out.

Offshore has been proving that for years. Great data Skater30. Back in the mid 90s they combined ProStock (triple outboard cats) with Modified (same size boats but I/O) MAINLY because all the ProStock guys were claiming the same top speeds as the M boats. Simply put, it was slaughter. The added weight and better balance of the I/O cats gave them a huge advantage. It's exactly why a twin outboard MTI, Skater, DW whatever does nothing for me. Ill take the 700/M6 boat all day long.

Which 700/6 boat do you have? Would you like to run back to Miami tomorrow vs my MTI OB?

Or are you dreaming of a 700/6 boat?

Now this would be some good helicopter footage, somebody make it happen.

Hard to happen when Skater30 is in the delta with the salvage 36 from Texas and was already involved in two bad skater accidents. PD has been a skater groupie for years and obviously is never going to buy a catamaran. TeamSaris should be TeamDreaming. These are all facts.

But hey I’m at the marina in key west and ready for these TALKERS.

well I see they still allow DB clowns in KW. Only morons argue lap times and numbers as facts. Only an MTI owner could turn such a fun conversation into this.

LOL, I take it your not gonna run back from Key West. Maybe save a little money and buy that skater. Or just keep posting year after year....it’s cheaper.

says the guy sitting on his phone in KW talking **** with his key board to other boat people for no reason. Keep drinking TOOL