Warrens twin clip on 28 Skater goes 135!
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03-06-2023, 05:04 PM
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Funny, one of the things the OB hating crowd miss is, the use of Jack plates.
On my twin OB 25’ Checkmate I run w/the plates full up which put prop shafts even w/bottom.
You can do it on the IO’s but they stay there.
Hows it work when you get to dock?
I drop mine (5”) then dock it like a regular boat!
On my twin OB 25’ Checkmate I run w/the plates full up which put prop shafts even w/bottom.
You can do it on the IO’s but they stay there.
Hows it work when you get to dock?
I drop mine (5”) then dock it like a regular boat!
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03-06-2023, 10:36 PM
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There's probably more outboard guys on here now than inboard guys with the trend toward outboard powered offshore cats and center consoles. Every run there are pictures of show a ratio of at least 3:1 outboard rigs to inboard rigs. As for me, I've owned 13 outboards (which included 3 different 28 Skaters and 1 30' Skater) and 11 inboards, with my current 3 boats being all inboards. I wasn't being derogatory towards the thread, just trying to point out that this 28 is not widened, as a few had assumed.
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Twin O/B Sonic (03-07-2023)
03-07-2023, 02:05 PM
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Not sure where you guys are getting that this standard-deck 28 is widened? It is surely the width that it was pulled from the mold (there's only one 28 mold), with a 45" wide tunnel. You can tell by the fact that the deck/cockpit width are all standard, with the same three-across rear seat in all standard-deck 28s. The only widened 28 pleasure boat Pete ever built was for his buddy Roy Schrader, who sadly passed in 2021. That 12" widened flat-deck 28 is now owned by Mike LaPaglia and has a set of 450Rs on it, spending most of its time on Lake Havasu.
I think that’s where the confusion comes from.
04-09-2023, 01:13 AM
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Your boat is awesome ! And run fast , but is might be the fastest skater now at this time , in ,95 the cultured vulture 28 skater ran 137 mph record speed in 2 directions measured , they ran 143 mph on single trips . This was a triple engine 3 x2,5,s .
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04-10-2023, 06:02 AM
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A friends boat, not mine.
I remember the Skaters from back in the era of triples and that speed does not surprise me.
Those hulls seem similar to the smaller STVs, in that they are so efficient that they just keep going faster the more power you add.
Pretty sure the Warren Duke camp is more interested in current day/power rigs.
I remember the Skaters from back in the era of triples and that speed does not surprise me.
Those hulls seem similar to the smaller STVs, in that they are so efficient that they just keep going faster the more power you add.
Pretty sure the Warren Duke camp is more interested in current day/power rigs.
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