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05-11-2013 | 10:22 PM
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From: Mt. Juliet, Tn
I just seen this post, you got it looking good brother! That thing will throw some water in the air and sit you back in the seat. That's so cool to see both of those boats and y'all enjoying them so much, very cool! I hope that we can all get together at a poker run somewhere and all run together. I would love to get a picture of that, be a lot of color in that Polaroid.
We will be at Lake Cumberland Thunder Run in June and Tennessee Power Boat Run in July here in Nashville.
We will be at Lake Cumberland Thunder Run in June and Tennessee Power Boat Run in July here in Nashville.
05-27-2013 | 04:52 PM
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From: Mt Juliet, TN
I just seen this post, you got it looking good brother! That thing will throw some water in the air and sit you back in the seat. That's so cool to see both of those boats and y'all enjoying them so much, very cool! I hope that we can all get together at a poker run somewhere and all run together. I would love to get a picture of that, be a lot of color in that Polaroid.
We will be at Lake Cumberland Thunder Run in June and Tennessee Power Boat Run in July here in Nashville.
We will be at Lake Cumberland Thunder Run in June and Tennessee Power Boat Run in July here in Nashville.
05-30-2013 | 10:25 PM
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From: Springfield, La
Thanks for the compliments guys. It's been a long process to get it to this point but it was well worth it. So far I've only ran it up to 105, and that was with 7 people in the boat. Been trying some different props and so far it seems to like a lower rake than what I started with. The boat actually ran really good up to 105 then started to feel a little squirley so we backed it down. With my first set of props at 90+ it started to get loose so I think we're going in the right direction. At 105 we were turning just under 5000. Had plenty of stick left so I'm pretty excited about what the end numbers can be. The best thing about this setup is how hard the boat will accelerate! When cruising around 65 you lay in the throttles and before you can blink your hitting 90. Needless to say I couldn't be happier. The swim platform was made by nick at alum metal fab. They did a great job, especially building it with me just giving him measurements over the phone. Would highly recommend them.
05-31-2013 | 08:08 PM
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Thanks for the compliments guys. It's been a long process to get it to this point but it was well worth it. So far I've only ran it up to 105, and that was with 7 people in the boat. Been trying some different props and so far it seems to like a lower rake than what I started with. The boat actually ran really good up to 105 then started to feel a little squirley so we backed it down. With my first set of props at 90+ it started to get loose so I think we're going in the right direction. At 105 we were turning just under 5000. Had plenty of stick left so I'm pretty excited about what the end numbers can be. The best thing about this setup is how hard the boat will accelerate! When cruising around 65 you lay in the throttles and before you can blink your hitting 90. Needless to say I couldn't be happier. The swim platform was made by nick at alum metal fab. They did a great job, especially building it with me just giving him measurements over the phone. Would highly recommend them.
06-03-2013 | 10:23 PM
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From: Mt. Juliet, Tn
That's awesome brother, we would run 93 mph at 4000 rpm and 103 at 4600 rpm with 950s in it (young performance) and run the taps at negative one. Seems like the boat has so much lift that the taps at neutral was above the water and wasn't helping stabilize the boat. Are you planning on coming this direction for any poker runs?
06-03-2013 | 10:26 PM
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From: Mt. Juliet, Tn
Thanks for the compliments guys. It's been a long process to get it to this point but it was well worth it. So far I've only ran it up to 105, and that was with 7 people in the boat. Been trying some different props and so far it seems to like a lower rake than what I started with. The boat actually ran really good up to 105 then started to feel a little squirley so we backed it down. With my first set of props at 90+ it started to get loose so I think we're going in the right direction. At 105 we were turning just under 5000. Had plenty of stick left so I'm pretty excited about what the end numbers can be. The best thing about this setup is how hard the boat will accelerate! When cruising around 65 you lay in the throttles and before you can blink your hitting 90. Needless to say I couldn't be happier. The swim platform was made by nick at alum metal fab. They did a great job, especially building it with me just giving him measurements over the phone. Would highly recommend them.
