Are cats really that dangerous??
06-01-2023 | 07:11 PM
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I am rebuilding an American Offshore which is the same boat, Chris Craft sold one set of the molds to them after they stopped building them. the boat ran 108-110 with iron headed 509's that were around 600 hp with bravo drives. always hated the bravo's as they dont tend to live long on cats. currently re-rigging the boat with #5 speedmasters and 565 engines that should make close to 800 hp so she should run up to around 130 but the owner just wants to be able to cruise at 100 which is pretty comfortable in these boats.
06-01-2023 | 07:13 PM
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pleasure boats are two front seats with four rear seats as you can see in the pics I sent you. all the race boats deleted the rear seats and were covered with a deck filler.
06-01-2023 | 07:16 PM
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06-01-2023 | 07:32 PM
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Wow talk about a jump, what did insurance say and cost?
Here is one that yes I like the paint and build a set of motors so know what you have.
https://www.offshoreonly.com/classif...at-o83117.html
Here is one that yes I like the paint and build a set of motors so know what you have.
https://www.offshoreonly.com/classif...at-o83117.html
06-01-2023 | 07:37 PM
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here are a couple others. My dad was VP of Chris Craft at the time and was one of the ones that pushed for the Chris Cat project. got to run a bunch of them back in the day. I was one of the few that was allowed to run them at the dealer meetings as you could not turn the dealers loose on the their own. one of the best rough water boats I have been in unless you step up to over 40'.
06-02-2023 | 12:20 AM
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So this is an interesting video....running in a Chris Cat in a poker run....doesn't appear to be that choppy other than boat wakes and it looks like a very wet rough ride...am I missing something? Was he not going fast enough to be up and out of the water? I was expecting smooth and dry plus a what looks like way smaller vee bottom walks him....not understanding what's happening here lol
06-02-2023 | 05:42 AM
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https://youtu.be/KU1NrQpEBgs
So this is an interesting video....running in a Chris Cat in a poker run....doesn't appear to be that choppy other than boat wakes and it looks like a very wet rough ride...am I missing something? Was he not going fast enough to be up and out of the water? I was expecting smooth and dry plus a what looks like way smaller vee bottom walks him....not understanding what's happening here lol
So this is an interesting video....running in a Chris Cat in a poker run....doesn't appear to be that choppy other than boat wakes and it looks like a very wet rough ride...am I missing something? Was he not going fast enough to be up and out of the water? I was expecting smooth and dry plus a what looks like way smaller vee bottom walks him....not understanding what's happening here lol
06-02-2023 | 06:16 AM
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