That's how the Detroit boat show went 20 years ago. It always was a disappointing event unless you were looking for a pontoon,18' fish boat, jet ski or cruiser. But than that's the market and what you see on the water mostly.
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Just read Speed on the Water and American Custom Marine has a booth with one C.C. boat at the Detroit show.

Learned my lesson last year after paying almost $50 for 4 beers.

Funny how everything old is new again...

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Miss the flats. Many found memories (and stories of those I don't remember)

Never pay attention to what da beers cost at da bout show. Be a coozie whore.

May have been mentioned already but saw a poontoon with a 600 on it. A poontoon… Surprisingly didn’t have a price tag on it.

I also won our annual bet of the highest priced brah boat there (wakeboard/surf boat things that look like they’re out of battle star galactica). I guessed 405, I was under by 10g’s. Top speed of 38mph. But sales guy said can carry 19. I threw up in mouth.

And somebody will buy it.

I can see the attraction to the C C’s, I’ve spent some time on them, driven them, but the wake boats….. everything they do sucks, except for the 1
thing they’re designed for.

We had my nephews surfing behind my brothers 2400 regal for about
$400k less;)

Thanks for the photos with people as a reference, those are MASSIVE! I only get to see the piddly little ones at the nearby ramp, not too much motor needed for inland water fishing. Those monsters are bigger than a phone booth . . . See what I did there, outed myself as a boomer. :479:

The Merc V-8 450R’s are bad SOB’s but that’s it for performance.

Everything else is way bigger/heavier.

A buddy just bought a 28’ Skater w/twin 300 hp Verados (in-line 6’s) that he is putting 430 hp tuned in.

Swears they’re bullet proof, even at that level.

In my world, being a life long 2 stroke OB guy, they stop working for me at about 30’.

A 33’ Powerplay w/twin 450’s would probably be a low 90’s boat.

They have another 29 Velocity into the low teens.

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supposedly runs near 90

Outerlimits still offers some BAD MF I/O hulls. There are a few others too. Superboat has a few 30 foot I/Os on order right now.
At the end of the day the I/O boats pretty much always win on the race course. Better balance, more weight, etc. We discussed this a few weeks ago on here comparing the 450 Cats to Supercats.
That's not to take anything away from a twin engine outboard boat. I loves me 2 2.5 OS bolted to the back of a narrow beam rocket. Bungees for the real look. Some of the most fun Ive ever had was a 27 Activator with fresh 260s. Nothing barks like those!

So if I walked into a Cig dealer a week after the show and paid the sticker price of $1,499,000, they’d be making an extra $300,000 out of me? Ouch!

Lovely boat but I’d be thrilled just to have the 300K to throw into a boat. 🙂

RR