Twins are much easier to dock than a single. If you find a 28 with twin small blocks consider yourself very lucky, you will most likely have to install your own. I really wasn't impressed by the numbers I've seen from the very few stock small block owners with 28's.

Is that a wooden door they slapped on that thing, WTF?

The BBC
 

was not thinking to much... Most all were BBC. so ill be fine with some BBC. i bet its going to be a pain to work on. OH well.

Boat looks ok but its a salt water boat. and that door looks like a 5min fix.

i know it takes me to be in some pretty decent size waves for me to launch. i also go to be over 60mph to even jump out. but hes right when driving it feels very sticky. im just puting in my $.02 on my boat. i dont know how the 28" is tho.

Where is that boat listed? That ssems like a good price, to bad it is Alphas.

www.boats-4-sale.com
Nothing wrong w/ alphas behind this power.

Wow! what a cool thread! I have been tied up at work for a week and didn't see this until today.

I can toss in some comments being one of the newest Pantera Single owners and having been the prior owner of a Twin SBC 28 Cig SS, Twin BBC Top Gun, Twin BBC Formula 302, and two seperate times twin SBC Nova Spyders and other boats.

I really like the single right now for my current lifestyle ..... very little time to use the boat, not a big $ investment so I do not feel guilty when I'm not out on it like my Top Gun made me feel. No overnight trips - all "day boating" with the family so the cabin space is no big deal. Outstanding cockpit space and sunpad/swim platform for hanging out all day.

The single makes the 28 VERY easy to trailer with the low weight and take along on driving trips up North. Great fuel economy .... I am at 2 MPG so far with the 532 HP 502 single with a 55 MPH cruise at 4K on a stock 26 B1 Prop with a Bravo X drive. My boat is set up like AR15's winning F1 boat so with a single power package, relocated smaller 75 Gal fuel tank, all pumps, battery etc. are mounted low and centered .... the boat has an outstanding center of gravity and stability and flys level.

The boat can totally handle the Lake Huron water on any day you would want to be out there, I was afraid when I bought the boat it would be light feeling and easily skip out of the water like my 21 Cig or my 18 Donzi, but no worries, the boat hammers the water and really impressed my Top Gun friends and one that owned a 47 Black Thunder this summer. It blasts right through the Blue Water Bridge slop coming out of Lake Huron into the St. Clair river.

I love the space around the motor to get to maintenance items ...... the only problem I had this year was a trigger wire falling off the starter, I sat right down next to the engine, saw the wire dangling in the air, reached down picked up the washer and nut and put it back on ..... voila' instant fix where on a twin I could have been digging around the bildge scraping elbows.

The only thing that I don't like about a RELIABLE single engined 28 boat is the difficulty of docking in tight spaces .... a single 28 Pantera has a LOT of sail with tall freeboard and if there is a cross wind you have to use the wind to get you into the right slip :eek: ...... the boat and the wind tells you which slip you want! :cool: not the dockmaster! I have been OK all summer but I go real slow and pre-plan everytime.....I do miss the rotational ability of twins.

You are welcome to check to boat out anytime but it's about 2 hours from Metro Detroit, and I am not on the boat again until the second weekend in October due to dirt bike trips in Northern Michigan and daughter High School swim meets. I'll be winterizing the boat that weekend to pack it away.

If gas stays high $ I always feel a fast cruising 70 MPH top speed great riding full 28 sized boat will have a strong resale value since a guy can drop down from a 30-35 whatever feeding two BBC's and not give up much ride or useability for a decent fuel economy, trailerable with a regular SUV cool looking single 28 foot boat.

Sooooo.... chalk one more up to recommending a single!

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Mike thanks for all the input. Im still torn but there are the things i really like about singles

Towing weight. (Never through of it but since im going to be lake jumpping makes all the sense in the world)

Love the idea of having room to work on something.

I agree. I have beat on alphas pretty hard in the past, and just look at TripleD!ckless. :party-smiley-004:
The only twin alphas I have been around were not counter rotating and they just handle funny coming off of wakes etc.