Warrens twin clip on 28 Skater goes 135!
 

His 450r’s turned 15 1/2 x 39’s (!!!) 6400!

Skip to the 10 min mark.

Ive know Warren for 20+ yrs and he knows how to make an OB fast.

He has a 19’ STV tunnel boat that has been 131!



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIz7DC_7Ucs

Fix the link.

Great looking Skater, and Hell yeah, that’s fast!

RR

Thx!

For some reason Im unable to successfully post links anymore.

Red Rocket
 

Warren Duke is a great guy and committed boater.

I start to pucker at 100-105 or so in our Skater 28. 135 is hauling the mail! He has a widened hull. I wonder how much that is worth as far as stability and extra MPH. Of course Warrens years of experience must play a HUGE roll. It bothers me when I see newbies attempting these high speeds. Great job and great looking boat!

Wider tunnel helps with lift.

Another 2x150 hp on the transom helps, too.

The good thing is that he can move those engines to a bigger Skater.

I have hit 110 mph in mine with 300XS and Mercury 3-blades. Earlier owner hit 118mph with 300X and Mercury 3-blades. Hoping to close some of that gap with DeWald 4-blades this season. Warren is in a different class.

He says in the video that the hull is Kevlar and approx 2200 lbs less power.

And yeah, Warren has been going fast for decades.

2200 lbs and Kevlar
 

I think that is what it says in the 28 Skater sales brochure that came with my boat.

That's HAULING in that thing.
We rigged one with triple 2.5OS that ran mid 120s and it was flighty. I can't imagine another 10mph.Congrats!

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.