Buffalo Poker Run
 

We would love to have you join us at the Buffalo Poker Run. Wouldn't it be cool to get Tim Sharkey to get a shot of your old and new boat running side-by-side. The first owner of my boat came to Buffalo last year and got a great shot of both boats running. www.buffalopokerrun.com

That would be cool! Joe is planning on running it at the end of the week. Eddie will fly up and fire up the motors and check everything with Joe. Then Joe and Rolf will play around with the props, then we will go get that bad boy. Can't hardly wait to get it home! It's been another great experience with Joe and Eddie.

Instead of the first week in April it will be the last week in April. Eddie is flying up to Hustler April 30th to run the boat.

Well, I'm at Islip airport about to head back to Nashville. We just finished running the boat about 2 hours ago. What a week. After screwed up flights, a speedo that wouldn't work, etc. etc. I open my tuning case to find that my data cable is missing. Everytime I fly with my tuning stuff, TSA takes everything out to inspect it. They apparantly forgot to put my cable back in. Needless to say, I couldn't make ANY changes to the tuning of the engines. I did have my widebands, so I could at least monitor AFR's. Luckily, the engines are really close. Idle, in and out of gear and tip in are dead on. There is a rich spot from 3000-3500, which is very odd. I also had one going a touch lean on the top end, so I didn't want to really rings it's neck without monitoring everything (which I couldn't do). We played with 3 different sets of props to see what the boat liked. We figured out the diameter,but we didn't have any props with a large enough pitch. We ended with 17 X 35" 5 blade Herrings, which the boat really likes. However, we could turn them to the moon. I made Rolf pull back at 6000 rpm when the one engine started going a little lean and we were at 133 mph. The boat will run 140 mph when it's dialed in with the right props. It needs at least a 17 x 38, possibly a 17 x 39 or 40.

I can't say enough about the boat. That hull is freaking amazing. The boat didn't do anything evenly remotely out of the ordinary at that speed. It was straight as an arrow, no chine walking, no porpoising, no nothing, Just straight and fast. I've been on a ton of Vee's over 100 and I can say that none have been that steady at that speed. Hustler has hit a home run with this one.

Thanks again to Eric and Joe for giving me the opportunity to power this boat. It's gonna be a winner.
Eddie

Great to hear. The Rockit's are unbelievable hulls.When will you head back to finish?

Congrats on a great looking package,Sounds like its going to run some good #'s. Question,It looked like it was completely rigged at the show, Why is it/does it take so long getting it finished/dialed in? I would get to impatient.

That Makes me want to trade my 388 and get a better running hull:D

Rob

very nice!!
i'm with ya Rob! :D:

Although it looked finished for the show, it wasn't 100% complete. They took there time finishing it since there was no rush. The other thing is that the owner just wasn't in a hurry. It's been cold up there, so we put off running it until it warmed up a little.

Rob, this boat is night and day from the slingshot. You wouldn't be dissappointed with one. I can promise you that.
Eddie

Congrats Eddie! 132 and still room for more!!! I'm happy for ya!

Very nice, looks like a great package. See ya at the shootout.